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Biometric Interoperability
I. Implementation of Biometric Interoperability
Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of
State (DOS) continue to enhance the biometric-based interoperability established between the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) Integrated Automated Fingerprint System (IAFIS)
and DHS' Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT). Both the interoperability
objectives and the IAFIS/Next Generation Identification (NGI) user services must be
considered to deliver full interoperability. The deployment of NGI will allow for improved
system availability; faster, more accurate identification processing and increased search
capacity.
As of November 17, 2008, all interim Data Sharing Model (iDSM) pilot sites, with the
exception of Department of Defense (DoD), were successfully transitioned to shared services.
This functionality provides a search of the full DHS IDENT repository. The FBI Criminal
Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division received these IDENT responses and generates
immigration alien queries to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Law
Enforcement Support Center (LESC) for the IDENT matches. The IDENT data responses
(IDR) combined with the immigration alien responses are forwarded to the originating
agencies.
Further deployment of shared services to state and local law enforcement is occurring as
a result of the ICE Secure Communities initiative, which is a comprehensive plan to
identify and remove criminal aliens. As of October 31, 2010, a total of 745 state and local
law enforcement jurisdictions representing 34 states are participating in shared services.
In relation to the Secure Communities initiative, participating state and local law
enforcement agencies have submitted 3,737,469 transactions to IDENT via
Interoperability as of August 31, 2010. Of these there have been 315,507 IDENT matches
that identified 47,771 Level One offenders and 267,736 Level Two and Level Three
offenders. This has resulted in 104,709 individuals being arrested or detainers being
issued.
Additionally, four federal agencies including the United States Office of Personnel
Management (OPM), DOS Office of Personnel Security and Suitability (OPSS), the FBI
Bioterrorism Risk Assessment Group (BRAG) and FBI Agents are participating in
Interoperability. On September 22, 2010, the DOS OPSS became the first authorized
noncriminal justice agency to obtain a full biometric search of DHS's IDENT since the
OPM was activated in November of 2008. The immigration identity information from
IDENT that is received by the DOS OPSS will enhance their ability to conduct more
thorough personnel security and suitability investigations for the DOS. The FBI's BRAG
submissions began searching the DOD's Automated Biometric Identification System
(ABIS) on 9/20/2010 and the DHS IDENT on 10/27/2010. As a result, the FBI BRAG is
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receiving additional data that will assist in determining an individual or entity's
eligibility to possess, use or transport select biological agents and/or toxins.
As of October 31, 2010, there have been 7,204,150 submissions sent to the DHS's IDENT,
resulting in 654,343 matches.
II. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Ten-Print Submissions from Primary Inspection
The DHS CBP performs inspection processes at air, land and sea ports-of-entry within the
United States (U.S.). During the primary inspection process at most of these airports, the CBP
officers capture fingerprint images and photographs from non-U.S. Citizens as they are
reviewing their immigration paperwork and conducting interviews with these foreign nationals.
The ten fingerprints collected from the travelers search the IDENT Watchlist, which contains
the subsets of Wants and Warrants (W/W) and Known and Suspected Terrorists (KSTs) from
the IAFIS. If an individual's fingerprints do not hit on a W/W or a KST on the IDENT
Watchlist, CBP forwards the ten fingerprints that are collected during primary inspection at
designated air and sea ports to the IAFIS for a criminal inquiry search of the full Criminal
Master File (CMF) as part of the Shared Services Component of IDENT and IAFIS
Interoperability. All IAFIS positive identification responses returned to the originating record
identifier (ORI), USVISITOZ, are being promoted to the IDENT Watchlist for review upon
subsequent encounter.
These submissions are processed in the IAFIS as non-retains and as a Criminal Fingerprint
Card Processing Non-Urgent (CPNU) type of transaction (TOT) with a required IAFIS
response time of 72 hours. For October 2010, the average response times were:
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97.991% within 15 minutes
99.49 % within 24 hours
100% within 72 hours
DHS US-VISIT and the FBI CJIS Division continue to enable greater interoperability
between the FBI's IAFIS and the DHS IDENT systems. In May 2010, FBI CJIS
implemented the IAFIS capability to provide a rapid response (with a goal of 10-seconds)
from a search of the IAFIS Criminal Master File (CMF) to CBP Primary prior to the
rapid response deployment to be delivered with the FBI CJIS's NGI. In November 2010,
DHS, through US-VISIT IDENT and CBP system modifications, will pilot its interim
rapid response capability at the Detroit International Airport.
As of October 31, 2010, there have been 49,749,125 submissions processed by the FBI's
IAFIS resulting in 500,114 positive identifications returned to DHS.
III. FBI Mobile
With the deployment of Shared Services in October 2008, FBI Agents using Quick Capture
Platform (QCP) devices became an obvious candidate for its use. With an Interoperability
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Initiative known as FBI Mobile, in March 2009, the FBI began forwarding QCP searches from
the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) in Iraq to the DHS IDENT system through Shared Services.
In December 2009, DHS approved additional FBI Mobile searches of IDENT from QCP
devices located domestically and used by FBI Agent Task Forces of various FBI Field Offices.
FBI QCP users began receiving the full identification response from IDENT in September
2010, which includes additional immigration identity information such as the fact that the
individual previously applied for a passport as well as the comments that have been recorded
by immigration officers. The additional data from IDENT can be used as "traction" by FBI
Agents during criminal investigations.
Information Supplied by: Interopetability Initiatives Unit
Dated: 11/24//2010
POC:
Dated:
Preetham Rao
Director's Research Groun (2092 2-9474
Information provided by:
Approved by: DAD Stephen L. Morris, CJ1S
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