Used for gunshot residue and other trace particle analysis.
Equipment for any forensic discipline or medical examiner service. Administrative costs are capped at 10%.
Directly or through your state · 2 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 (07BD-01-OPDT), 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 · 3 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.
5 awards to 5 recipients in 5 states named it in their own description. The median award was $263K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“A current method of choice, sem/eds is used for igsr analysis only and is costly, destructive to the sample, and time-consuming.”
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2024 · $557K
“…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 spectrometry (py-GC-MS), and the novel method of direct analysi…”
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2024 · $216K
“…bone mineral density); calculating the energy required to initiate failure/fracture using accelerometer and load cell data; examining fracture surfaces with a scanning electron microscope and micro ct; and using deep learning models to automate data collection.”
MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA · NIJ Forensic R&D · FY2024 · $10K
“The current scanning electron microscope that is used for this analysis is outside of its useful life and is hindering efficient processing of these cases.”
CRIME LABORATORY ARKANSAS · Coverdell · FY2022 · $294K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $557K | RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THENIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $216K | SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITYNIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $10K | MAYO CLINIC ARIZONANIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes | |
| $294K | CRIME LABORATORY ARKANSASBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Formula | |
| $263K | STATE POLICE DEPARTMENTBJA FY 22 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program - Competitive |
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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