Infrared spectroscopy for identifying drugs, paints, fibers and other materials.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state · 9 past awards named it
Any project in one of JAG’s purpose areas, subject to BJA’s prohibited-expenditures list. Local awards are often small.
Directly or through your state
On FEMA’s equipment list (07CD-02-DLSP, 07CD-01-FTIR), but only fundable when it supports a terrorism-preparedness target. Requested through your state.
Through your state
A research grant: equipment only when the research needs it. Proposals built mainly around buying equipment aren’t eligible.
Apply directly · 2 past awards named it
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 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.
11 awards to 10 recipients in 9 states named it in their own description. The median award was $295K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“…project activities include purchasing two gas chromatograph-flame ionization detectors, two gas chromatograph-mass spectrometers, and one gas chromatograph-infrared spectrometer to replace current instrumentation, completing internal verification testing to ensure proper functionality, and implementing all instrumen…”
OKLAHOMA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS COUNCIL · Coverdell · FY2025 · $499K
“This funding request is specifically directed toward the following items: consumable supplies, certification of the hoods used in the forensic laboratory, a fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir) instrument, analyst overtime, and calibration of instrumentation for the drug chemistry and toxicology units.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WYOMING · Coverdell · FY2024 · $295K
“Lvmpd will utilize $79,024 in opioid funds to procure a service contract for an existing gas chromatograph infrared spectroscopy (gcir) instrument and one (1) rough pump for an existing gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) for the chemistry detail seized drug u…”
NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY · Coverdell · FY2024 · $295K
“…end-uses by characterizing them with analytical methods routinely used in trace evidence examinations for tape, including attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared (atrftir) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy (sem-eds), pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectromet…”
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2024 · $216K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $499K | OKLAHOMA DISTRICT ATTORNEYS COUNCILBJA FY25 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement- Competitive Grants Program | |
| $295K | ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WYOMINGBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Formula | |
| $295K | NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY24 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- Formula | |
| $216K | SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $658K | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $313K | NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY 23 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $100K | MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $418K | STATE POLICE DEPARTMENTBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $270K | MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $166K | LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENTLaw enforcement agency | Nov 2023 | |
| $33K | CITY OF MANSFIELD | Apr 2023 |
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 →
FEMA’s Homeland Security grants can only buy items on this list, and only for terrorism preparedness. The full list →
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