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FBI’s New Biometric Identification System Achieves IOC

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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker The FBI yesterday said its new biometric matching system has achieved initial operating capability (IOC), offering state, local and federal law enforcement agencies faster and more accurate automated fingerprint matching capabilities than the legacy system based on fingerprints already on record. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) system has been providing fingerprint matching accuracy rates of 99.6 percent versus 92 percent of the legacy Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), John Traxler, the FBI's NGI program manager, told…

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