Standards development

NIJ Civil Disturbance Unit Standards: The Importance of Standards and Testing

July 2019

Mark Greene, Physical Scientist, National Institute of Justice, and Alan Hanson, Captain, Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department, discuss the importance of standards and testing and why it is important to develop CDU standards for agencies across the country.

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Keeping Up With Firearms Evolution: NIJ Revising Firearms Standards

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Body Armor: Protecting Our Nation’s Officers From Ballistic Threats

The Next Revision of the NIJ Performance Standard for Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor, NIJ Standard 0101.07: Changes to Test Methods and Test Threats

Funding to support the operation of the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics

2016-IJ-CX-0112

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$47,000

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Drug Treatment Courts

Date Published

May 2025

Agencies

BJA, NIJ, OJJDP

Developing a Database of Cursive and Printed Handwriting Characteristics

Application of Raman and Infrared Microscopy for the Forensic Examination of Automotive Clear Coats and Paint Smears

2017-IJ-CX-0022

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$484,163

Quantifying and Qualifying the Influence of Standard Laboratory Procedures on Aged, Degraded, and/or Low Copy Number DNA

2017-DN-BX-0139

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$997,831

Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice

2015-DN-BX-K409

Open

Funding First Awarded

2017

$404,255

Funding to support the operation of the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics

2016-IJ-CX-0112

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$42,000

NIJ's Standards and Testing Program

The Role of Equipment Performance Standards in Correctional Settings

Market Survey of Offender Tracking Technologies Gives Agencies a Snapshot of Available Products

Providing Access to the Best Equipment Standards

Journal

Date Published

August 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Funding to support the operation of the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics

2016-IJ-CX-0112

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$50,000

Furthering Understanding of Forensic Units: A Detailed Examination of Louisville Metro Police Dept.'s CSU

2016-R2-CX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$32,000

Service Specification Package Addresses Agencies’ Need to Automatically Transfer Tracking Data When Changing Service Providers

NIJ Issues a Revised Bomb Suit Equipment Standard

Identifying Technology Needs and Innovations to Advance Corrections

The PbS Learning Institute, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), and the VERA Institute of Justice, propose to develop new reentry measurement standards.

2015-CZ-BX-K002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$750,000

Statistical and Mass Spectral Tools for the Identification and Characterization of Synthetic Phenethylamines

2015-IJ-CX-K008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$239,652

Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S.Forensic Practice

2015-DN-BX-K009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$510,409

An Inside Look at Creating Standards for Equipment

Date Published

September 7, 2015

NIJ sat down with Chris Tillery, Office Director for NIJ's Office of Science and Technology, to examine the standards development process at NIJ.

TECHBeat, May/June 2015

Journal

Date Published

June 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored