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Video: Upgrading the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System: Introducing NamUs 2.0

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

2016-MU-BX-K007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2018

$5,000,000

Upgrading the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System: Introducing NamUs 2.0

May 2018

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) provides technology, forensic services and investigative support to resolve missing persons cases.

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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

Lost but Not Forgotten: Finding the Nation's Missing

Date Published

November 2017

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

2016-MU-BX-K007

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2017

$7,455,832

Using Innovative Technology to Investigate Targeted Mass Violence: What the Future Holds

A Comprehensive Test of the Methods and Models Used to Assign Geographic Origin to Human Skeletal Remains With Stable Isotope Data

2016-DN-BX-0157

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$268,648

Identifying Missing Persons Through Legislation

Forensic Information Data Exchange and the Partnership Between Law Enforcement and Crime Laboratories - Panel at the 2010 NIJ Conference

Date Published

June 2010

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Presentation (Multimedia), Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Closing Date

May 3, 2016

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Program. This program furthers the Department's mission by responding to the need to assist State and local law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners, allied professionals, and the general public with resolving missing and unidentified persons cases. Currently in the United States, thousands of people are searching for those...

Fiscal Year 2012 Funding for DNA Analysis, Crime Laboratory Capacity Enhancement and Other Forensic Activities

Date Published

April 2014

Publication Type

Statistics, Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

National Institute of Justice Annual Report 2010

Date Published

January 2010

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing: Identifying the Missing of Minnesota

2015-DN-BX-K039

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$133,434

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program

2011-MU-BX-K063

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$5,000,000

NIJ FY15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing

2015-DN-BX-K070

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$2,238,750

Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing

2015-DN-BX-K040

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$277,667

The Florida Missing and Unidentified Persons Cold Case Program

2015-DN-BX-K041

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$386,537

NIJ FY 15 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing

Closing Date

April 28, 2015

The goal of the “Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing” solicitation is threefold:

1. Assist eligible entities in performing DNA analysis on unidentified human remains and/or reference samples to support the efforts of States and units of local government to identify missing persons.
2. Enter the resulting DNA profiles into the FBI’s National DNA Index System using the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) version 7.0...

NamUs: Investigative and Forensic Resources to Resolve Missing and Unidentified Person Cases

Event Dates

October 29, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program

2011-MU-BX-K063

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$3,750,000

Advances in Forensic Anthropology

Event Dates

May 7, 2013, 11:12 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Workshop

Registration Status

Not Required

Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, Fiscal Year 2013

2013-DN-BX-K012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$800,000

Project to Identify Cold Case Decedents

2013-DN-BX-K013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$159,658

Combining Efforts to Identify the Missing: A United States/Mexico DNA Project

2013-DN-BX-K001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$384,539