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 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence
Note:
              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC)
Award #
              2007-MU-BX-K008
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Largo, FL
Congressional District
              13
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2007
Total funding (to date)
              $12,200,000
Original Solicitation
              National Institute of Justice Continuations Solicitation
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2007, $6,000,000)
The NFSTC and its partners have agreed to form a Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCE).  The FTCE will work within the framework of the NIJ's National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Centers (NLECTC) system to provide testing, evaluation, technology assistance programs, and other technology services for the criminal justice community. The FTCE will also be responsible for supporting NIJ's research and development programs, identifying technology requirements, testing, evaluating, and demonstrating technologies, supporting the adoption of new technologies, developing technology guidelines, and national technology assistance and support.  The FTCE will support the following specific activities: (1) General Forensics and Forensic DNA Technical Working Groups (TWG), (2) Technology adoption activities including technology transfer workshops, evaluations, and exhibitions, (3) DNA Laboratory Audit / Grant Progress Assessment Program, (4) NIJ Expert System Testbed (NEST) Project, (5) The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology, and the Law's Online Resource, (6) The National Y-STR Database, (7) Conversion of NIJ Publications to Mobile Media, (8) Process Mapping Tools and Methods, (9) Recruiting, Selection, and Retention Study for Laboratory Scientific Staff, (10) NIJ Grantees Summit, and (11) Applied Technology Conference
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Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2009, $6,200,000)
The purpose of this proposal is to continue funding for the Forensic Technologies Center of Excellence sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs', National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In FY2007 a competitive, peer-reviewed award was made to the National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) as a cooperative agreement with NIJ to form and administer the first ever Forensic Technologies Center of Excellence (FTCoE).  NIJ's objective for the FTCoE was, and continues to be, the facilitation of the adoption of new tools and technologies into practice by criminal justice agencies through testing, evaluation, and the provision of technology assistance. NFSTC has successfully led the FTCoE through its initial establishment and has provided scientific and technical support to NIJ's research and development efforts; supporting the demonstration, transfer, and adoption of appropriate technology into practice by law enforcement and corrections agencies, courts, and public crime laboratories; assisting in the development and dissemination of technology guidelines and standards; and providing technology assistance, information, and support to law enforcement and other appropriate criminal justice agencies.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Advances in Forensic DNA Quantification: A Review
                  Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement
                  Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator (Technical Update)
                                                                      NIJ Research Report,
                  Comparison of Four Commercially Available Portable Raman Spectrometers
                  Comparison of Fingermark Detection Using Semiconductor Laser and LED Light Sources with Three Chemical Reagents - Technology Evaluation

  
Date Created: September 13, 2007
    
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