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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.
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Subtopic: Laboratory operations

Number of Awards: 2,710
Total Amount Awarded: $1,019,126,490

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Evaluation of Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology for Routine Forensic Casework NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2018-DU-BX-0166 $390,646 Closed
2018 Increasing Safety, Speed, Sensitivity, and Selectivity of Controlled Substance Analysis NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, MARYLAND MD 2018-DU-BX-0165 $299,234 Closed
2019 Probabilistic Genotyping for Microhaplotypes Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE) DC 2019-DU-BX-0023 $192,764 Closed
2019 Assessment of Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Evidence Selection Leading to Development of SAK Evidence Machine-Learning Model (SAK-ML Model) Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE UTAH UT 2019-NE-BX-0001 $250,000 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2019-DU-BX-0003 $399,699 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Adaptation of the DNAse I procedure to the Biomek® NXP robotic platform for more efficient and automated sexual assault sample processing Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 2019-NE-BX-0002 $250,636 Closed
2019 Combining LC-MS/MS Product-Ion Scan Technology with GC-MS Analysis to Identify Drugs and Poisons in Postmortem Fluidsand Tissues Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY FL 2019-DU-BX-0002 $372,438 Closed
2019 The Viability of Virtual Peer Review and Microscopic Verification Versus Traditional On-site Review Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 WASHINGTON STATE PATROL WA 2019-DU-BX-0001 $611,226 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - VT Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Vermont Department of Public Safety VT 2010-DN-BX-K033 $19,153 Closed
2010 Fy2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - State of South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Office of the Attorney General SD 2010-DN-BX-K134 $55,125 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Oregon State Police Forensic Services Division NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Oregon State Police OR 2010-DN-BX-K142 $220,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program'Georgia Bureau of Investigation NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Georgia Bureau of Investigation GA 2010-DN-BX-K026 $64,600 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Wyoming NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Wyoming Office of the Attorney General WY 2010-DN-BX-K133 $64,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - North Dakota NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program North Dakota ND 2010-DN-BX-K211 $89,670 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - NH Department of Safety NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program New Hampshire Dept. of Safety NH 2010-DN-BX-K024 $20,000 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Tennessee Bureau of Investigation NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Tennessee Bureau of Investigations TN 2010-DN-BX-K029 $506,527 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee Backlog Reduction Program - California Department of Justice NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program California Department of Justice CA 2010-DN-BX-K023 $473,967 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Mississippi Crime Laboratory NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Mississippi Department of Public Safety MS 2010-DN-BX-K025 $300,312 Closed
2010 FY2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation OK 2010-DN-BX-K022 $550,000 Closed
2010 Maine State Police Crime Laboratory convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Maine State Police ME 2010-DN-BX-K110 $88,434 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Nebraska State Patrol NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Nebraska State Patrol NE 2010-DN-BX-K140 $52,500 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department NV 2010-DN-BX-K028 $109,410 Closed
2010 2010 Convicted Offender/Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction- Honolulu Police Department NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program City and County of Honolulu HI 2010-DN-BX-K031 $148,140 Closed
2010 FY 2010 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Arizona Department of Public Safety NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Arizona Department of Public Safety AZ 2010-DN-BX-K030 $446,743 Closed
2010 FY2010 Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Delaware Office of the Chief Medical Examiner NIJ FY 10 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program DELAWARE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES DE 2010-DN-BX-K032 $98,100 Closed