Northrop Grumman presents team for handling FBI's NGI contract
The FBI wants to upgrade its biometric procedure and database, and Northrop Grumman heads a team eager to undertake the project
Northrop Grumman has named its team of partner companies for — get ready for a string of acronyms here — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Next Generation Identification (NGI) competition. NGI is a ten-year development, operations, and maintenance program aiming to provide biometric services to support the FBI’s various missions. The current FBI’s fingerprint system, known as the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, provides automated flat and rolled fingerprint matching, and NGI will expand these services to include other biometrics such as facial, palm prints, and iris scans.
Northrop Grumman’s team, among others, comprises BearingPoint of McLean, Virginia; General Dynamics of Falls Church, Virginia; and Raytheon of Waltham, Massachusetts. The team also inculdes several West Virginia-based companies, among them Azimuth and Key Logic Systems of Morgantown; DSD Laboratories, Galaxy Global, and West Virginia High Technology Consortium of Fairmont. There several solution providers as well in the team, among them IBM of Armonk, New York; BEA Systems and Cisco Systems of San Jose, California; EMC of Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Oracle of Redwood Shores, California; Sun Microsystems of Santa Clara, California; I3 of Falls Church, Virginia; and Ideal Innovation of Arlington, Virginia.
Northrop Grumman has had experience in fingerprint database systems since developing such a system for the United Kingdom’s National Policing Improvement Agency and recent wins with the U.S. Department of Defense for its Automated Biometric Identification System and Biometric Identification System for Access.
Northrop Grumman is a $30 billion defense and technology company with about 120,000 employees.
