DNA Backlog Reduction Program
Report to Congress
Read the 2011 DNA Initiative Annual Report.
Funded Awards and Abstracts
View lists of awards and abstracts for this program as well as the convicted offender/arrestee and forensic casework backlog reduction programs it replaced.
The goals of NIJ's DNA Backlog Reduction Program is to assist eligible states and units of local government to:
- Process, record, screen and analyze forensic DNA and/or DNA database samples.
- Increase the capacity of public forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis.
Under this program, in general, eligible applicants are given the opportunity, based on their individual needs, to determine what portion of their anticipated funding should be used for capacity building purposes and what portion should be used for analysis of forensic DNA and/or DNA database samples. Supplemental funding anticipated to be made available under this program to applicants that operate State-designated DNA database laboratories is expected to be used to meet unfunded needs of the DNA database laboratory, but these supplemental funds may be used for other allowable purposes (e.g., forensic DNA sample analysis or laboratory capacity enhancement), should the needs of the DNA database laboratory be satisfied by other means.
To learn more about this program, download the solicitation FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program (pdf, 26 pages).
See also forms and examples to help with your application:
- Review Checklist (pdf, 21 pages)
- DNA Backlog Reduction: Program Narrative Form (pdf, 15 pages)
- Example Program Narrative (pdf, 15 pages)
- DNA Backlog Reduction Budget Detail and Narrative Worksheet (xlsx, 102 KB)
- Example Budget Detail and Narrative Worksheet (xlsx, 108 KB)
