This NIJ grant is for States and units of local government seeking funding to identify, review, and investigate violent crime cold cases through advanced DNA analysis. The primary purpose is to empower agencies to re-examine unsolved homicides and sexual assaults, leveraging significant advancements in DNA technologies. These innovations now allow for successful analysis of aged, degraded, limited, or previously compromised biological evidence, which once yielded inconclusive or no results. By locating and analyzing such evidence, this program aims to solve a substantial number of long-standing cases, defined as UCR Part 1 Violent Crimes with exhausted investigative leads.
Opportunity ID: 63173
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | NIJ-2011-2810 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Solving Cold Cases With DNA |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Law, Justice and Legal Services Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 100 |
| Assistance Listings: | 16.560 — National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jan 07, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 08, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 08, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | Jun 08, 2011 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $0 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Institute of Justice |
| Description: | With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications from States and units of local government for funding to identify, review, and investigate violent crime cold cases that have the potential to be solved using DNA analysis, and to locate and analyze the biological evidence associated with these cases. Experience has shown that cold case programs can solve a substantial number of violent crime cold cases, including homicides and sexual assaults. Advances in DNA technologies have substantially increased the successful DNA analysis of aged, degraded, limited, or otherwise compromised biological evidence. As a result, crime scene samples once thought to be unsuitable for testing may now yield DNA profiles. Additionally, samples that previously generated inconclusive DNA results may now be successfully analyzed.
For the purposes of this announcement: violent crime cold case refers to any unsolved UCR Part 1 Violent Crime case for which all significant investigative leads have been exhausted. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Link to full solicitation announcement. |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
For assistance with any other requirement of this solicitation, contact Charles Heurich, Program Manager, at 202–616–9264 or by e-mail to Charles.Heurich@usdoj.gov.
For technical assistance with submitting the application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or via e-mail to support@grants.gov. Email:Charles.Heurich@usdoj.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 63173 Full Announcement-1 -> nij fy11 solving cold cases with dna solicitation508.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | For assistance with any other requirement of this solicitation, contact Charles Heurich, Program Manager, at 202–616–9264 or by e-mail to Charles.Heurich@usdoj.gov. For technical assistance with submitting the application, contact the Grants.gov Customer Support Hotline at 800–518–4726 or via e-mail to support@grants.gov. Email: Charles.Heurich@usdoj.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.560 | PKG00026010 | Jan 07, 2011 | Mar 08, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
63173 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
63173 Budget-1.1.pdf
63173 Project_Abstract-1.1.pdf
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