On May 5, the Justice Department submitted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to the federal register, publicly exempting the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s NGI system from several ...

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is complete with facial recognition technology and a database of more than 8 million mug shots.

The NGI system, which started as a pilot program in 2009, was designed by defense contractor Lockheed Martin in a deal worth up to $1 billion.

The company responsible for building NGI’s facial recognition component—MorphoTrust (formerly L-1 Identity Solutions)—is also the company that has built the face recognition systems used by ...

The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system builds on the FBI’s legacy fingerprint database, which already contains well over 100 million individual records, and has been designed to include ...

The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system also has the capability to store information on tattoos and such things as voice and gait recognition data. And it collects information not just on ...

In NGI, the ten-print system has also been improved because it now runs on a more powerful, 1,000-blade server farm — the old IAFIS system runs on 64 blades — and uses enhanced recognition ...

The FBI’s long-term transition from IAFIS to the NGI biometrics system upgrade is being conducted under a 10-year $1 billion contract awarded to Lockheed Martin in February 2008, though a ...

A system like NGI is a double-edged sword. Most people would agree that a system that helps law enforcement locate and identify suspects and known criminals more efficiently is a good thing.

The NGI System will expand on the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), ...

Although automated fingerprint identification systems have been in use since the 1980s, many were proprietary, vendor-driven systems that did not interoperate. The goal is to avoid a similar situation ...

In a recently released audit report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) generally performed effectively in its ...