General Forensics Research and Development: Call for White Papers

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General Forensics Research and Development: Call for White Papers: With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals in the form of white papers for research and development to enhance the methods crime laboratories use to examine evidence. The solicitation focuses on: - Faster, more reliable, more robust, less costly, or less labor-intensive tools for identification, collection, preservation, or analysis of crime scene evidence. (Note: Special consideration will be given to the development of miniaturized or portable forensic testing devices.) - Tools that can increase the discriminatory power of forensic analyses or provide quantitative or statistical data that can increase the power of a match. - Identification or characterization of new analytes of forensic importance. White papers must target one of the following forensic disciplines: Controlled Substances, Toxicology, Trace Evidence, or Impression Evidence.