NGI is a ten-year development, operations and maintenance program. The NGI system will provide biometric services to support the expanded FBI mission. The current FBIs fingerprint system, known as the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, provides automated flat and rolled fingerprint matching. NGI will expand these services to include other biometrics, such as facial, palm prints, and iris scans.

Northrop Grumman is leading the premier biometrics team that will partner with the FBI and CJIS to serve state and local law enforcement and the citizens they protect. The team is comprised of large partners, local West Virginia-based businesses and solutions providers. The three large partners are BearingPoint, McLean, Va.; General Dynamics, Falls Church, Va.; and Raytheon, Waltham, Mass. The West Virginia businesses include: Azimuth Inc. and Key Logic Systems, Inc., Morgantown; DSD Laboratories Inc., Galaxy Global Corp. and West Virginia High Technology Consortium, Fairmont. The solutions providers are: IBM, Armonk, N.Y.; BEA Systems and Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif.; EMC, Hopkinton, Mass.; Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, Calif.; Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.; I3, Falls Church, Va.; and Ideal Innovation, Arlington, Va.

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