US Justice Department Earmarks $125M for President's DNA Initiative

Oct 04, 2006

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The US Department of Justice has earmarked $125 million for funding opportunities available through President George Bush’s 3-year-old DNA Initiative, the DOJ said today.

The DNA Initiative is a 5-year, $1 billion commitment from the government to improve the nation’s capacity to use DNA evidence by improving crime lab capacity, funding R&D, eliminating backlogs of criminal genetic evidence, and other projects.

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