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FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches

Posted by Zonk on from the we're-all-thrilled-for-them dept.

coondoggie writes "The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division has awarded Lockheed Martin a $16 million contract to upgrade its central repository for criminal justice information services. 'The CJIS division operates national-level crime data systems that furnish name checks, fingerprints, criminal history data and other information to law enforcement officials. Keeping its systems on the leading edge should help CJIS with its goal of delivering getting timely and relevant criminal justice information to the FBI and all others in the law enforcement community. The new and upgraded servers will be part of the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.'"

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  1. News? by moehoward · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Is a lousy $16 million contract news? Give me a break. Most big companies sneeze $16 million in IT expenses every day.

    Cut the political and "big-brother-gonna-get-ya" crap, editors. This is a complete non-story. They are upgrading. Gosh. Nobody ever does that. And how many Slashdot stories ridiculed the FBI for spending billions on their failed IT re-alignment?

    Stop the Boogey-Man stories and let's talk Nerd.

    Moe

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    "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
  2. Not a bad thing ... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not everyone can access FBI records directly, so this won't increase non-governmental background checks (which typically use data collected by private sources). But it WILL cause innocent people being held under suspicion of being a fugitive to be released faster. The data is being accessed anyway -- may as well do it quickly to minimally inconvenience those who shouldn't be inconvenienced.