AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 30, 2024– Signature Science, LLC has been awarded a one-year, $1.2 million contract from the city of San Jose, CA to perform forensic serology, screening, and DNA analysis of biological evidence collected from sexual assault victims by the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) in Santa Clara County. SART provides emergency comprehensive medical and forensic victim examinations and expert witness testimony following allegations of adult sexual assault.
Signature Science will apply its streamlined extraction, amplification, analysis and case management processes to support the city of San Jose’s Sexual Assault Investigations Unit as they carry out their mission to clear the backlog of untested SART kits and deliver answers to the victims and the community.
“The potential impact of this work to the County of Santa Clara is significant,” said Leslie Parke, Signature Science’s Forensic DNA Laboratory Director. “Over the course of our contract with the city of San Jose, we will process a large number of outsourced cases enabling them to provide critical case updates to victims, and, as the evidence allows, pursue new investigative leads.”
Work under the contract will be performed at Signature Science’s ANAB-accredited forensic DNA casework laboratory in Austin, TX.
About Signature Science, LLC:
A subsidiary of the Southwest Research Institute, Signature Science, LLC is a scientific and technical consulting firm providing multi-disciplinary applied research, technology design and development, and scientific, technical, and operational services to government and industry.