The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) programme has won an award for intergovernmental collaboration in the government IT community.The NGI programme, a 10-year incremental replacement of the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), was awarded The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council's award for Excellence in Intergovernmental Collaboration.The ACT-IAC awards honor the best of government information technology (IT) programs demonstrating proven strategies and solutions.In June, the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance held a senior level panel discussion highlighting Forensics and Biometrics Programs supporting our Nation's Security and the need for future innovation.In a statement announcing the award, it was noted that NGI's new fingerprint identification technology provides an improved accuracy rate of 99.6% up from the previous 92%. NGI has reduced the dependency on supplemental name checks and human examiner review, reducing manual fingerprint reviews by 90%.The CJIS announced full operational capability of its NGI last September. The FBI's NGI System was developed to expand the Bureau's biometric identification capabilities, ultimately replacing its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) in addition to adding new services and capabilities. As part of NGI's full operational capability, the NGI team says it is introducing two new services: Rap Back and the Interstate Photo System (IPS).Rap Back enables authorized entities to receive ongoing status notifications of any criminal history reported on individuals holding positions of trust, such as school teachers. Law enforcement agencies, probation and parole offices, and other criminal justice entities will also greatly improve their effectiveness by being advised of subsequent criminal activity of persons under investigation or supervision.The IPS facial recognition service will provide the USA's law enforcement community with an investigative tool that provides an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities. This effort is a significant step forward for the criminal justice community in utilizing biometrics as an investigative enabler.Since phase one was deployed in February 2011, the NGI system has introduced enhanced automated fingerprint and latent search capabilities, mobile fingerprint identification, and electronic image storage, all while adding enhanced processing speed and automation for electronic exchange of fingerprints to more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and other authorized criminal justice partners 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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