Next-generation or massively parallel sequencing for SNP, mitochondrial and degraded-sample work.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state
DNA work only. Equipment must be approved for use with the National DNA Index System (NDIS).
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Any project in one of JAG’s purpose areas, subject to BJA’s prohibited-expenditures list. Local awards are often small.
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Only for missing persons and unidentified remains work.
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A research grant: equipment only when the research needs it. Proposals built mainly around buying equipment aren’t eligible.
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Lab equipment only for DNA-based kit screening such as Y-screening. General lab capacity equipment isn’t allowed.
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The notice bars lab equipment and software such as genetic analyzers, extraction robotics and probabilistic genotyping software.
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From each program’s funding notice. Programs for other kinds of work aren’t listed, and “ruled out” only appears where the notice says so. Check the current notice before you apply: the rules can change each year.
Your city or county can get this money straight from BJA if it is on this year's JAG allocations list, so check that first. It can pay for staff, equipment, supplies, training and information systems for criminal justice work, and it doesn't go through your state.
Money to improve forensic science and medical examiner or coroner services. Local government labs apply directly to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, state labs apply through their state administering agency, and applications are scored against each other.
Your lab can get federal funding to process more DNA samples and reduce your backlog by entering samples into CODIS, the national DNA database system. You apply directly to the federal government on grants.gov, with no state agency required.
Your state's administering agency applies for formula funds that flow down to your lab through your state's own process. Contact your state forensic science improvement coordinator early, since state deadlines typically come before the federal deadline. This is different from competitive funds, which labs apply for directly to the federal government.
Your lab can get money to process more DNA samples and enter them into the national CODIS database, or to set up rapid DNA testing at booking stations. You apply directly to the federal government through grants.gov, without going through your state.
7 awards to 7 recipients in 6 states named it in their own description. The median award was $600K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“The purchases of equipment and supplies for the validation of next-generation sequencing (ngs) will enable the DNA lab to employ more advanced technologies to process samples that would normally fail to produce probativeresults.”
LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF · CEBR · FY2024 · $1.3M
“The california department of justice missing persons DNA program (mpdp) is submitting a proposal with two components: validation and implementation of the forenseq kintelligence ht assay; and development of a technical training course on the forensic application of massively parallel sequencing.”
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CALIFORNIA · MUHR · FY2024 · $888K
“…genetic information from severely compromised biological samples is to use new highly sensitive molecular methods, such as hybridization capture coupled with next-generation sequencing.”
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2024 · $233K
“We propose to build on the data already generated from a past effort (2015-dn-bx-k067) and utilize massively parallel sequencing (mps) to generate and characterize new str candidates.”
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2023 · $514K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $1.3M | LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY, NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OFBJA FY24 Formula DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program | |
| $888K | DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CALIFORNIABJA FY24 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program Assistance Listing Number | |
| $233K | NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories | |
| $514K | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTHNIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $111K | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZNIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship | |
| $771K | THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $600K | BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC.NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes |
Planned uses from each award’s filed description, not a record of what was bought. Open a row to read the full description. Sources: USAspending.gov and DOJ’s own award list, last three fiscal years and this one. Award Explorer →
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