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FBI expands crime-fighting capacity with palm prints

FBI expands crime-fighting capacity with palm prints
The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) Increment 3 was deployed on May 5, 2013, providing significant improvement in latent fingerprint search accuracy and a new nationwide palm print identification system to help solve cold cases and improve crime-solving capabilities. The improvements are the largest so far in a series of phased upgrades to be carried throughout 2014 to the FBI's biometric identification services, providing new and enhanced biometric capabilities for more than 18,000 local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies across the country .These new resources are among the latest upgrades delivered by a Lockheed Martin-led team for the NGI system.

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) Increment 3 was deployed on May 5, 2013, providing significant improvement in latent fingerprint search accuracy and a new nationwide palm print identification system to help solve cold cases and improve crime-solving capabilities. The improvements are the largest so far in a series of phased upgrades to be carried throughout 2014 to the FBI's biometric identification services, providing new and enhanced biometric capabilities for more than 18,000 local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies across the country .These new resources are among the latest upgrades delivered by a Lockheed Martin-led team for the NGI system.

NGI Increment 3 incorporates matching algorithms developed by Morpho, and supplied by its U.S. subsidiary MorphoTrak based in Virginia. The new technology is three times more effective in matching latent fingerprints submitted by investigators to those in the national database. Records are managed more efficiently using the case management capabilities of a MorphoTrak product, which when combined with Lockheed Martin-developed software and Morpho search algorithms, allows for the processing of all hand friction ridge areas and prints on file from each arrest cycle, enabling law enforcement agencies to conduct searches with greater speed.

In addition to creating a system with matching algorithms, the National Palm Print System (NPPS) contains latent palm prints that will be searchable on a nationwide basis for the first time. Identification of palm prints, which represent about a third of all latent prints, has been used successfully in the past by investigators to match prints from a crime scene against those of known suspects. Now, law enforcement agencies can use the NPPS to compare latent palm prints in a matter of minutes against all records in the national database.

"We have supported the mission of the US Department of Justice for nearly 40 years, and are committed to maximizing technology to help the FBI and other law enforcement agencies make the nation's streets safer," said Stephanie Hill, President, Information Systems and Global Solutions-Civil, at Lockheed Martin, which also developed and implemented the FBI's legacy Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) system that has been in place since 1999.

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