Equipment and technology
Improving Hot-Spot Policing through Behavioral Interventions
Continued operation of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) - National
Linking Theory to Practice: Testing Geospatial Predictive Policing in a Medium-Sized Police Agency
Matching Forensic Sketches to Large Face Image Databases - Supplement
Small Rural Tribal Border Regional Center - OST Continuation
Evaluating the Crime Control and Cost-Benefit Effectiveness of License Plate Recognition (LPR) Technology in Patrol and Investigations
Policing by Place: A proposed multi-level analysis of the effectiveness of Risk Terrain Modeling for allocating police resources
A Comparison of Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) Aerial and Terrestrial Methods for Accident Scene Investigation Information Collection
Body Armor Performance Standards and Compliance Testing
NIJ has been setting voluntary body armor standards since 1972. The NIJ standard is the only nationally accepted standard for the body armor worn by law enforcement and corrections officers. NIJ also administers a program to test commercially available armor for compliance with the standards to...
Optimizing Criminal Justice Use of Social Media in the "Web 3.0" Environment: Addressing the Problem of Human Sex Trafficking
Testing a Geospatial Predictive Policing Strategy: Application of ArcGIS 3D Analyst Tools for Forecasting Commission of Residential Burglaries
National Institute of Justice Body Armor Challenge: How Long Does Body Armor Really Last?
On this page find:
- Challenge Winner
- Overview
- How to Enter
- Important Dates
- Judges
- Judging Criteria
- Prize
- Other Rules and Conditions
Challenge Winner (Phase II)
In the U.S. Department of Justice’s first ever Challenge competition, the winning team for NIJ’s Body Armor Challenge was from Purdue University’s school of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering. The team received a $25,000 prize for proposing a concept for testing the...