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NIJ FY06 Research and Development on Impression Evidence Solicitation: Invited Full Applications

Opportunity ID
2006-NIJ-1215
Solicitation Status
Closed
Fiscal Year
2006
Closing Date
Posting Date
Description

NIJ seeks concept papers for research and development to enhance crime laboratories’ ability to identify, characterize, capture, visualize, and preserve impression evidence. This solicitation focuses on: 1. Faster, reliable, widely applicable, less costly, and/or less labor-intensive tools/technologies for the identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of impression evidence. 2. Tools that provide a quantitative measure/statistical evaluation of forensic comparisons. 3. The effect of time and environmental factors on impression evidence. 4. The unique forensic characteristics found in impression evidence.

Awards

Number of Awards: 3
Total Amount Awarded: $378,780

Date Created: February 6, 2006