Grants Awarded to Improve Digital Evidence Gathering Software

A news release from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer revealed that the National Institute of Justice awarded four Electronic and Digital Evidence Recovery grants totaling a sum of $775,000 to Odyssey Research Associations in Ithaca. The grants are intended to improve digital evidence gathering software by funding work on software programs that help law-enforcement officials gather digital evidence from computers, mobile phones, and peer-to-peer file sharing clients.

Odyssey, headquartered in a suburb of Minneapolis, conducts research in computer security and has an information-management research group. Odyssey will use the four grants to improve Mac Marshal software, develop a program known as Mobile Marshal, pay for work on Odyssey’s P2P Marshal software, and update automatic evidence-gathering software known as Mem Marshal. 

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