NIJ Funding Opportunities

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has recently issued the following solicitations. Please be aware that you must submit your application electronically using Grants.gov. Instructions for the Grants.gov registration process are available at: www.grants.gov/applicants/get_registered.jsp.

NIJ FY08 Communications Technology Concept Paper Solicitation
Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Number: 2008-NIJ-1701

Deadline: November 14, 2007, 11:59 p.m. eastern time.

NIJ is seeking applications to research, develop, and evaluate emerging communication technology solutions for criminal justice agencies. Specific areas of interest include:

Cellular detection, location, isolation and defeat.
Locator technologies for personnel and equipment assets.
Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology.
Cognitive radio technology.
In-building communications coverage technologies and related information.
Alternative, cost-effective technologies for interconnection of repeater sites for voice that also enable wireless data services.
Non terrestrial technologies (satellite and airborne).
Mobile hybrid technology for wireless broadband data (i.e., multiprotocol and multiband technology that seamlessly finds best route and operational band).

Download entire solicitation: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000804.pdf

NIJ FY08 Forensic DNA Research and Development Concept Paper Solicitation
Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Number: 2008-NIJ-1700

Deadline: November 14, 2007, 11:59 p.m. eastern time.

NIJ is seeking applications for research and development that can enhance the forensic uses of DNA technology. This solicitation focuses on technologies that result in faster, more robust, more informative, less costly, or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes. Priority will be given to proposals focusing on the following:

General improvements to the “front end” of the forensic DNA analysis process.
Physical separation of the components of a mixture.
Body-fluid/cell-type identification and characterization.
Identification and/or characterization of biological marker systems that have the potential to reveal additional or more powerful information about the source of the biological evidence.
Improved tools for examining aged, degraded, limited, damaged, inhibited, or otherwise compromised DNA evidence.
Species differentiation.
Novel methods for genetic profiling.

Download entire solicitation: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000803.pdf