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FBI Refreshing New Biometric Database as it Goes

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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Unlike its original electronic fingerprint database that went more than a decade without upgrading its fingerprint matching software, the FBI’s new multimodal biometric database is being enhanced along the way, taking advantage of the flexibility built into system, an agency official says.The FBI’s original Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), launched in 1999, didn’t receive any upgrades to its 10-print and latent print algorithms until the first increment of the replacement system was deployed in 2011, according to Kim Del…

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