Technology Working Groups
NIJ Technology Working Groups are committees of 10 to 20 practitioners chosen based on their professional reputation and experience. They meet several times a year to review and validate NIJ's research and development activities and to ensure that current and future technologies meet practitioners' needs.
Current Technology Working Groups
- Biometrics
- Body Armor
- Communications Technologies
- Community Corrections
- Institutional Corrections
- Electronic Crime
- DNA Forensics
- Explosives
- General Forensics
- Geospatial Technologies
- Information-Led Policing
- Less-Lethal Technologies
- Modeling and Simulation
- Personnel Protection
- Pursuit Management
- School Safety
- Sensors and Surveillance
- Weapons Detection
Each Technology Working Group is sponsored by a National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center Exit Notice or a Forensics Resource Network partner, with a technologist serving as the group's Technology Coordinator. Technology portfolios and working groups may change as priorities change within the field, as solutions are implemented, or as new technologies emerge.
Technology Working Groups work with the Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Advisory Council Exit Notice to ensure that NIJ's technology program is tied to practitioner needs and high standards for safety and performance. They also identify and define additional technology needs and operational requirements not previously documented.
Technology Working Groups also:
- Peer review concept papers and proposals (received in response to solicitations).
- Review the ongoing status of research and development projects.
- Evaluate the success of programs and projects.
- Identify host agencies to serve as test beds or first adopters of newly developed technologies.