Forensic sciences

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for research and development to enhance crime laboratories’ ability to identify, characterize, capture, visualize, and preserve impression evidence. This solicitation focuses on: •Faster, reliable, widely applicable, less costly, and less labor-intensive tools and technologies for the identification, collection, preservation, and analysis of impression evidence. •Tools that provide a quantitative measure or statistical evaluation of forensic comparisons. •The effect of...

NIJ is seeking applications for funding to research, develop, and demonstrate emerging digital evidence recovery technology solutions for public safety agencies.Specific areas of interest include:Internet protocol (IP) tracing.Data hiding and encryption.Macintosh computer forensics.Mobile digital evidence examination.Live computer system capture and triage tool.Intrusion forensic examination tools and utilities

NIJ is seeking applications for funding research and development that can enhance the f o r ensic uses o f DNA t e c hnolog y . T h is solicit a t ion f o cuse s on t e chnolo g ies t h a t r e sult in f a st e r , m o r e r obus t...

This solicitation marks the first step in a planned multi-year effort to build, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of cold case invest igations by local law enforcement agencies. This effort will identify current practices of police agencies conducting cold case investigations; develop evaluation criteria for assessing the effectiveness of these practices and approaches; construct alte rnative model programs and alternative program elements that agencies of...

Awards made under this funding opportunity are Continuation awards. These are grants or cooperative agreements that provide supplemental funds to awards made in a prior fiscal year. Typically, these awards were made initially in response to competitive solicitations. NIJ often uses continuations to fund multi-year research and development projects.