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March Rollout for FBI's Data Sharing System

Wilson P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) plans to launch the first increment of its National Data Exchange (N-Dex) law enforcement information sharing system March 19, according to program manager Kevin Reid.

Speaking to GCN this afternoon in a telephone interview, Reid said that CJIS and the N-Dex vendor, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, expected to bring in the first increment of N-Dex at a cost of about $41 million—approximately $3 million less than the project budget specified.

Raytheon won the N-Dex contract in February 2007. At the time, the FBI and Raytheon said they expected to complete the first increment by the end of this month.

The first increment of the system will include the features that CJIS' user community specified as the most urgently needed capabilities, including the ability to capture incident and case reporting data and to conduct "entity resolution" on the information.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2008 05:47:00 PM