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This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
One of the nation’s leading crime laboratories, the Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC), has announced that it will voluntarily adopt standards approved by...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has published its November 2018 Issue of the quarterly newsletter. Learn more...
This Bulletinprovides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has released its 2018 Annual Report. OSAC continues to make steady progress toward...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has approved three new standards for inclusion on the OSAC Registry. This registry...
DRAFT Guidance on Testing the Performance of Forensic Examiners
The Human Factors Committee (HFC) of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for...
The forensic sciences encompass dozens of disciplines, each with its own history and vocabulary. As a result, a word might mean one thing to forensic...
Jeremy Triplett has had a busy three years. Since the inception of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science ( OSAC) in 2014, Triplett...
Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is a world-recognized researcher in theoretical physics. Formerly of the University of Maryland and now a professor at Brown...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its October 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its September 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) is launching a monthly newsletter to communicate OSAC program status, activities...
Forensic science service providers need access to a uniform set of standards that support scientifically sound and statistically valid test results, laboratory...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced six...
NIST's Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), the 540-member group working to develop a uniform set of forensic science standards and guidelines, is...
The future of forensic science was on display at last month's American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Several NIST researchers...
Those who missed presentations of forensic science standards development priorities at the first public meetings of the Organization of Scientific Area...
Feb. 16, Orlando, Fla. – Midway through the first day of a meeting devoted to public discussion of forensic science standards priorities, someone asked the...
Forensic scientists interested in watching the first public meetings of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees will be able to see them online via a...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC), which coordinates the development of standards and guidelines for the forensic science community under...
NIST's Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) is taking the first steps toward developing an OSAC Registry of Approved Standards and an OSAC Registry...