Efforts Underway to Build New, Web-Based Infrastructure for Wanted Persons Database
NEXT GENERATION IDENTIFICATION (NGI)
The teacher who helps a first-grader learn simple addition. The elder care worker who assists an aging parent. The government employee with access to highly sensitive information.
What do all of these people have in common? Each needed a background check to obtain employment – and that background check involved the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and verifying a person’s identity using biometrics. To ensure that those who care for our most vulnerable, those charged with protecting our nation and its citizens, can be trusted.
And it goes beyond proving someone is who they say they are. It’s also for catching the guilty, identifying criminals through what they’ve left behind: fingerprints at a crime scene, a palm print on a door, a face caught on security videotape.
It’s Next Generation Identification (NGI). A state-of-the-art biometric identification system that the FBI will use and populate with biometric information to keep Americans and their families safe.
The System
Biometrics are already in use today with the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS); the result of a successful collaboration between the FBI and Lockheed Martin, IAFIS is the world’s largest database of its type with more than 55 million sets of fingerprints.
But, just as our world has changed, so has the scope of technology. Capability has increased exponentially. New methods are gaining traction. With NGI, the Bureau and Lockheed Martin face a new challenge: to significantly expand fingerprint capacity, add in palm prints, and include facial and iris recognition.
What’s Happening
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The RISC fingerprint database, which is managed by the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, includes Wanted Persons, Known or Appropriately Suspected Terrorists, Sex Offenders Registry subjects, and other persons of special interest.
“This capability gives law enforcement users more speed and flexibility in how they search the RISC fingerprint database,” explained Lockheed Martin NGI Program Director Mike Moore. “For the first time, the law enforcement community can use web-based transactions, in addition to the existing data input mechanisms, to determine whether a suspect is a wanted person within RISC.”
In addition to the full RISC development activity, the team is now beginning design work for the next phase of NGI, which will enhance today’s latent fingerprint matching accuracy and introduces palm prints to the system. NGI is being designed with a significant degree of flexibility to accommodate these and other biometric modalities that may mature and become important to law enforcement efforts in the future.
Earlier this year, the NGI team completed final delivery of its more than 800 Advanced Technology Workstations a full month ahead of schedule. The new machines replace aging Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Service Provider Workstations used by the FBI’s service providers and analysts.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 136,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.
Lockheed Martin Media Contact: Kimberly Jaindl, 301-519-6400, kimberly.jaindl@lmco.com
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