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Learning From The Past, FBI Refreshing New Biometric Database As It Goes

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, September 15th, 2017

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Learning From The Past, FBI Refreshing New Biometric Database As It Goes

FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services headquarters in Clarksburg, W. Va.

Unlike its original electronic fingerprint database that went more than a decade without upgrades to its core 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 said last week.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,…

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