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Homeland Security

NGI Program Holding Close to Schedule, FBI Says

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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The fingerprint matching portion of the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is going through its contractor tests right now in preparation for independent testing by the agency later this year and is on track to be operational early next year, an FBI official tells TR2. NGI prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] will deliver the fingerprint matching system later this summer at which time the FBI will begin its independent testing regimen, says Kevin Reid, the agency's deputy program manager…

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