An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law and in collaboration with the BMSA's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics will:

1) Develop text for a Request for Proposals (RFP) that addresses Recommendation #11 of the 2014 NRC report, Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification, that called for additional research on system and estimator variables in eyewitness performance. The committee will develop criteria to be used in evaluating the scientific merit and research design of proposals submitted to the foundation to further advance understanding of statistical tools appropriate for the validating the reliability of eyewitness performance.

2) Upon receipt of all proposals from the foundation, the committee will meet to evaluate the proposals based upon scientific merit and research design.

3) The committee will write a short report to the foundation that assesses how well the proposals meet the scientific and technical criteria.