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Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee

Icons for OSAC's Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee
Credit: NIST

The Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee (SAC) provides strategic direction, serves as a platform to integrate similar standards activities across multiple forensic science disciplines, and manages the activities of the following subcommittees:

Members

Lora Sims, SAC Chair, Ideal Innovations, Inc.

William Trenkle, Ph.D., SAC Vice Chair, United States Department of Agriculture

Tracy Walraven, Digital Evidence Subcommittee Chair, Wells Fargo

Krystal Howard, Facial & Iris Identification Subcommittee Chair, Michigan State Police

Larry Kincaid, Speaker Recognition Subcommittee Chair, Sandia National Laboratory

Christina Malone, Video/Imaging Technology and Analysis Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL)

Participate in an Interlaboratory Study on Image Comparison Opinions

NIST recently funded a cooperative agreement to complete an interlaboratory study to assess the practical utility, accuracy and reproducibility of OSAC 2022-S-0001, Standard Guide for Image Comparison Opinions.

We are actively two cohorts of participants: 1) forensic practitioners who have been determined to be competent by their respective agency, organization, or other entity, and currently conduct forensic casework on face, hands, or clothing image comparisons; and 2) laypersons composed of individuals trained in forensic science but not image comparisons, undergraduate/graduate forensic science students, and the general public.

To learn more and register your interest, please fill out this Google form by February 29, 2024.

Documents

Presentations

Created July 11, 2014, Updated February 2, 2024