DNA Backlog Reduction and Capacity Enhancement

Use Search Filters

A Guidance Document on the Forensic Application of Massively Parallel Sequencing

Date Published

April 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits

2013-MUR-6019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$1,000,000

NIJ and FBI Laboratory Partnership to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits

2013-MUR-6019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$4,874,000

Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories

April 2018

As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.

Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy

Helping Labs Increase Capacity and Reduce Backlogs

Fiscal Year 2017 Funding for DNA Analysis, Capacity Enhancement, and Other Forensic Activities

Date Published

April 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ

Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories

Date Published

April 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Issue Overview, Instructional Material (Programmed), Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Uniting to Solve Sexual Assault Crimes

Date Published

March 2017

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

DNA Capacity and Backlog

2015-DN-BX-0118

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$1,450,000

FY15 DNA Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0061

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$406,533

FY15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Dallas County (TX)

2015-DN-BX-0053

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$592,042

FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Fort Worth

2015-DN-BX-0038

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$87,759

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program/Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences

2015-DN-BX-0008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$639,942

Statewide

2015-DN-BX-0117

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$720,453

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Austin

2015-DN-BX-0065

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$196,262

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0104

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$462,979

FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0113

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$558,280

NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Suffolk County NY

2015-DN-BX-0082

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$247,092

2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0110

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$271,948

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0068

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$295,179

2015 SLED DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction

2015-DN-BX-0045

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$934,421

FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - St. Louis County

2015-DN-BX-0044

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$155,222

State of Nebraska - DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program

2015-DN-BX-0102

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$276,018

FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction-Richland County

2015-DN-BX-0005

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$162,211

Analyzing evidential material associated with criminal investigations for the City of Oakland, California

2015-DN-BX-0106

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$474,282