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NIJ FY 07 Research and Development on Impression Evidence: Invited Full Proposals

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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...