The FBI’s cliometric Next Generation Identification system
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The FBI has integrated the latest addition to its Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which delivers new tools designed to improve the Bureau’s capability to identify criminals accurately and efficiently.
NGI provides cutting edge biometric research tools to over 18,000 local, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies across the US.
The recent addition to NGI is Rap Back, which allow authorized users the access to updates on any reported criminal activity perpetrated by individuals holding positions of trust. This service will also alert criminal justice officers, such as probation officers, to new criminal activities by persons under investigation or oversight.
The nationwide image repository, which is part of the current addition, is designed to allow for easier retrieval of images associated with criminal history. NGI impacts the entire criminal history programs associated with the FBI, including the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). It is thus able to create superior recognition systems for facial features, scars, marks and tattoos.
NGI provides an incremental replacement of the FBI’s current IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System). The latter, which had also been developed and integrated by Lockheed Martin, has been in use since 1999.
Over time, Lockheed Martin’s team provided various major improvements to NGI, such as the capability to process 650,000 daily finger print transactions with a precision level of over 99% in 6 minutes.
