In September 2024, NIST published a report entitled Strategic  Opportunities to Advance Forensic Science in the United States: A Path  Forward Through Research and Standards, which identifies four “grand  challenges” facing the forensic science community in the United States and provides a strategic roadmap for addressing these challenges through scientific research and standards. To complete this report, NIST  researchers conducted an extensive literature review and collected input from academic and government researchers, forensic science practitioners, legal experts, statistics experts, and feedback from NIST  subject matter experts to assess the forensic science environment and discuss the long-term vision and strategic priorities for forensic science in the United States. This presentation will summarize the report, detailing an overview of the findings from those efforts and outlining a strategy for the forensic science community to align over the next decade.

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