Grant Funding for Crime Laboratories and Researchers
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Congress has appropriated funding to meet the goals of the DNA Initiative. The funds are made available periodically through solicitations from the Initiative's Partners and announced on this page.
Select a program to the left under Grant Funding to learn more about programs to reduce the convicted offender and forensic evidence backlogs, solve cold cases using DNA, develop and implement training and perform research and development.
Visit the National Institute of Justice's Current Funding Opportunies or Forthcoming Funding Opportunities pages.
Lists of Awards and Abstracts
- DNA Backlog Reduction Program Funding, 2011
- Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Funding, 2004-2010. Note: In fiscal year 2011 this program was subsumed by the DNA Backlog Reduction Program.
- Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program (In-House Analysis and Review), 2005-2010. Note: In fiscal year 2011 this program was subsumed by the DNA Backlog Reduction Program.
- Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program, 2008-2010
- Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program, 2007-2010
- Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program, 2008-2010
- Solving Cold Cases with DNA Evidence, 2005-2010
- DNA to Identify Missing Persons, 2004-2010
- DNA Research and Development, 2008-2010
