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Impression Session: Firearms and Toolmarks

August 2023

Series

National Center on Forensics

This training was presented as a part of the National Center on Forensics Conference at George Mason University on August 10th, 2023. In this session, NIST Senior Forensic Science Research Manager Rob Thompson and FBI Supervisory Physical Scientist/Forensic Examiner Michelle Machalka introduce the concepts of firearm and fingerprint impressions.

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FBI Subaward to the NIST project "Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components"

GRANT14110035-B

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$130,000

Identifying Class and Individual Characteristics of Printer Marks on Additively Manufactured Firearm Components

DJO-NIJ-25-RO-0001

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$389,657

Improving Fire Pattern Analysis Using Non-Invasive Sensor Technologies

15PNIJ-24-GG-03845-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$630,560

Black Box Evaluation of Hand Detail Image Comparisons

15PNIJ-24-GG-03846-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$746,866

Attribution of tire marks via their elemental profile

15PNIJ-24-GG-03849-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$299,344

Semi-empirical Kinetics Model for Fingerprint Aging

15PNIJ-24-GG-03855-MUMU

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$399,437

Quantitative Matching of Forensic Evidence Fragments Using Fracture Surface Topography and Statistical Learning

Date Published

September 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Development of double casts for the validation of three-dimensional imaging systems for firearm forensics

15PNIJ-24-GG-01553-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$205,090

Using Objective Criteria for Bloodstain Pattern Classification

Event Dates

August 1, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Forthcoming

Switch-on Near Infrared Emission in Albumin Behind Dark Fabric: Toward Application in Forensic Latent Bloodstain Detection

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Mechanisms Underlying Desistance from Crime: Individual and Social Pathways

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Estimate of the Random Match Frequency of Acquired Characteristics in Footwear: Part II - Impressions in Dust

Date Published

January 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Estimate of the Random Match Frequency of Acquired Characteristics in Footwear: Part I - Impressions in Blood

Date Published

January 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

FBI Laboratory Decision Analysis Studies in Pattern Evidence Examinations

Event Dates

March 19, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Eastern

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

ASCLD Train The Director Webinar Series

Impression Session: Firearms and Toolmarks

Event Dates

August 10, 2023

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Not Required

Highlighting Significant NIJ Forensic Science Investments: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Site Visit

Date Published

February 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Online Localization and Prediction of Actions and Interactions

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Impacts of Large-Scale License Plate Reader Deployment on Criminal Investigations

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Development of Infrared Library Search Prefilters for Automotive Clear Coats From Simulated Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Spectra

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Contextual Information Management: An Example of Independent-Checking in the Review of Laboratory-based Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Face Search at Scale

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Applications of fluid dynamics and mechanics of continua in forensics

Date Published

December 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

An Information Gap in DNA Evidence Interpretation

Date Published

2009

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Analysis of "Trace DNA" Evidence

Date Published

January 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ