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Lockheed Martin Delivers New Capability To FBI Biometric System

Gally Articola

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered the latest capability for the FBI’s next-generation biometric database, providing the agency with improvements in its ability to search latent fingerprints and a new palm print identification system. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) now includes 10-print fingerprint searches, the Repository for Individuals of Special Concern, which provides law enforcement authorities in the field the ability to quickly search against as few as two fingerprints of wanted persons or others of special interest, and the latent fingerprint…

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