FBI needs to convert millions of fingerprint cards to electronic records
The FBI is scanning millions of hard-copy fingerprint cards stored in West Virginia and convert the fingerprints and accompanying text data into electronic format.
The Card Scanning Service (CSS) effort is designed to allow the FBI to utilize its current paperless Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which was initiated in 1999, with hard-copy fingerprints that were gathered in earlier years.
The project is
to convert an average of 3,000 newly obtained criminal and civil fingerprint cards each day, as well as palm-print cards, photographs of faces, scars, marks and tattoos, and fingerprints from foreign nationals.
In addition, it will be expected to maintain their conversion facilities "within easy transport range" of the FBI’s fingerprint facility in Fairmont, WV -- will work their way through an archive of approximately 35 million existing fingerprint cards during the next five years, according to a Sources Sought notice posted by the FBI on Aug. 15.
"Staff working at the FBI facility in Fairmont, WV, will receive the fingerprint cards from the FBI catalog and stage the cards for shipping, securely transport the cards to the Contractor’s facility, process the cards at the Contractor’s facility, and then return hard copy cards to the FBI for completion of a quality assurance review," the notice explained.
The cards are optically scanned and converted into electronic data that complies with the Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS).
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