ABSTRACT
The FBI has recently initiated the Next Generation Identification (NGI) Program, which will further advance the FBI’s biometric identification services. NGI will be deployed in multiple increments and eventually completely replace the current technical capabilities of IAFIS. It will introduce new functionality and state-of-the-art biometric identification services across a multi-year timeframe. The NGI Program is a collaborative effort between the FBI, CJIS Advisory Policy Board, as well as local, state, federal, and international members. Goals of the program include increased flexibility, capacity, accuracy, response times, availability, interoperability, and additional functionalities. More advanced fingerprint identification technologies will provide speedier and more efficient identification processing,
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increased search accuracy, and improved latent processing services. More importantly, searches of ten-print submissions for non-criminal justice purposes will be processed much more smoothly. Advanced matching algorithms will improve ten-print search accuracy from 92% to 99.6%, as well as improved flat fingerprint searching. Advanced latent algorithms will provide more accurate latent print searches, which will be three times more accurate than they were using IAFIS. Additionally, the NGI Program will enhance integration of biometric data, thus creating a framework for a multimodal functionality that will serve to facilitate biometric identification. This multimodal system will promote information sharing, interoperability, and allow multimodal biometrics to be used for positive identification.
