Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation Sort descending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	Post-Blast Explosives Attribution	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	MA	2018-DU-BX-0193	$599,738	Declined
2018	Autosomal DNA-STR Profiling of Directly Captured Spermatozoa from Post-Coital (3-10 Days) Cervico-Vaginal Samples	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE	FL	2018-NE-BX-0001	$600,704	Closed
2018	Poisson Processes and Randomly Acquired Characteristics: Are Wear Features on Footwear Randomly Distributed?	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-MU-MU-0003	$178,080	Closed
2018	Black Box Evaluation of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Conclusions	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2018-DU-BX-0214	$1,086,976	Closed
2018	DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Capillary Electrophoresis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA	OK	2018-DU-BX-0205	$477,609	Closed
2018	Through the E-Cigarette Looking Glass: The Impact of Vaping Ethanol on DUI Investigations	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-75-CX-0036	$517,961	Closed
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	MA	2018-DU-BX-0192	$649,938	Closed
2018	OSTEOID, A New Forensic Tool: Developing a Practical Online Resource for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER	IA	2018-DU-BX-0229	$185,453	Closed
2018	Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-DU-BX-0226	$171,041	Closed
2018	Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	George Mason University	VA	2018-DU-BX-0228	$197,669	Closed
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2018	Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	NJ	2018-DU-BX-0185	$546,727	Closed
2018	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
2018	Validation of Novel Statistical Approaches for the Interpretation of Trace Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-DU-BX-0194	$499,318	Closed
2018	Structural Characterization of Emerging Synthetic Drugs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-75-CX-0033	$368,415	Closed
2018	Learning from Our Casework: The Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA)	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-DU-BX-0213	$267,117	Closed
2018	Fast Screening of Firearm Discharge Residues by Laser-based Spectrochemical Methods, Electrochemical Sensors, and Chemometrics	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-DU-BX-0186	$379,394	Closed
2018	Evaluation of 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy for Firearm Forensics within the Crime Lab	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Cadre Research Labs, LLC	IL	2018-DU-BX-0216	$198,000	Closed
2018	Evaluating Analytical Parameters and Understanding Drug-Matrix Interactions in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-75-CX-0037	$400,349	Closed
2018	Automation-Supported Curation of Large Forensic Image Databases	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0181	$354,751	Closed
2018	Validating Conclusion Scales in the Forensic Sciences	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	2018-DU-BX-0212	$249,206	Closed
2018	Multi-spectral Tunable Detection (MultiTuDe) Lens for Rapid In-situ Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC & IMAGING, LLC	CA	2018-75-CX-0042	$271,226	Closed
2018	Better Forensic Markers: Microhaplotypes and Ancestry SNPs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	YALE UNIVERSITY	CT	2018-75-CX-0041	$1,083,499	Closed
2018	Evaluation of Terrestrial and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Kansas State University	KS	2018-R2-CX-0031	$91,416	Closed
2018	Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0218	$669,898	Closed