Screening kit samples for male DNA to decide which to take through full testing.
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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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.
4 awards to 4 recipients in 3 states named it in their own description. The median award was $996K, for the whole project, not just this item.
“currently the laboratory employs nuclear str typing and y-str typing techniques and has incorporated probabilistic genotyping into our interpretation.”
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER · CEBR · FY2024 · $387K
“The investigators and laboratory staff will also identify and triage samples for submission for str, y-str, and mtdna testing on samples, and upload these profiles into CODIS.”
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH · SAKI · FY2023 · $4M
“The award will fund supplies for in-house str and y-str DNA testing of these samples.”
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT · MUHR · FY2022 · $996K
“…that there is a substantial backlog of untested evidence in cases related to sexual assault, which may be eligible for advanced DNA testing methods such as y-str and forensic genealogy searches.”
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE · SAKI · FY2023 · $229K
| Details | ||
|---|---|---|
| $387K | COUNTY OF WESTCHESTERBJA FY24 Formula DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program | |
| $4M | THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTHBJA FY 23 The National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative: Training and Technical Assistance Program | |
| $996K | FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENTBJA FY 22 BJA Missing and Unidentified Human Remains Program |
Money a state received and passed on to a local agency.
| Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $229K | CITY OF JACKSONVILLE | Mar 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 →
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