Trump's FBI inks contract to vastly expand and centralize its biometric surveillance and data-collection capabilities
Will pay defense contractor $128 million a year to upgrade the system, but don't worry, it's all to 'keep America safe'
We are living in the midst of a historic, accelerating convergence of biometric surveillance and national security infrastructure, capable of sweeping up endless reams of personal data on immigrants and Americans alike.
In the latest evidence of that trend, Biometric Update reports that the FBI has awarded a $128 million one-year contract to a company called Leidos, to modernize the agency’s sprawling biometric and criminal history database known as the Next Generation Identification, or NGI, system. The FBI will have options to renew the contract for up to another four years.
According to the article:
“The contract, announced Tuesday, marks the latest evolution in a decades-long effort by the FBI to centralize and enhance the way federal, state, local, and international partners identify individuals suspected of criminal activity or are flagged for national security reasons using rapidly advancing biometric technology.”
Roy Stevens, president of Leidos’ national security sector, said:
“Leidos has long partnered with the FBI to deliver mission-critical biometric systems, including NGI, the largest, most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history data. Leidos’ work with the FBI to improve the system’s accuracy facilitates many more criminal identifications, helping to keep America safe.”
According to Biometric Update, NGI is much more than just a fingerprint repository.
It is the most expansive biometric identity system in the world, encompassing multimodal data inputs including facial recognition, palm prints, iris scans, voice data, scars and tattoos, and, increasingly, behavioral biometrics.
Since its initial rollout in 2011, NGI has served as the core operational system within the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. It processes millions of biometric transactions daily and supports hundreds of thousands of users across law enforcement, immigration, counterterrorism, and border security.
The new contract granted to Leidos mandates a comprehensive overhaul of NGI’s digital architecture and operational capabilities. This modernization includes the integration of new biometric matching algorithms, machine learning–driven analytics, mobile and cloud-based application support, and the reengineering of core software and hardware infrastructure using AI to boost agility, speed, and interoperability.
This contract comes on the heels of another awarded to Leidos in May worth $130 million over five years to support the FBI’s Fingerprint Analysis Support Team Biometric Services program. According to Biometric Update, this contract “marked a significant development in the FBI’s efforts to modernize and enhance its biometric identification capabilities and further solidified Leidos’ position as a critical partner in advancing federal law enforcement technology infrastructure.”
This is more of the beast system developing at warp speed before our very eyes.
Putting this type of tech in the hands of a notoriously corrupt and, in my opinion, unconstitutional agency, is unconscionable.
But, at this point, nothing is going to slow it down, not when you have an arch technocrat residing in the White House surrounded by handlers who crave endless techno-surveillance “upgrades” with all manner of tagging and tracking capabilities.
Washington is out of control, and quickly turning America into a high-tech police state.
"Follow The Money". I personally don't believe "Washington is out of control" -- it's UNDER CONTROL and has no resemblance whatsoever to what it might have at one time been intended to be....we have long since lost all semblance to a Constitutional Republic and Washington has become a stage for ham actors to read their scripts and feign empathy (occasionally) and outrage at the abuses they themselves are heaping upon the "people" in their respective "representative" roles as stewards of the globalist's resources and plans coming into fruition before our eyes. They're anxious for us to experience the level of control and the limitations under it that they find themselves governed by -- after all, the more visible and more appearance of authority one has, the more one has to capitulate and concede in order to remain a participant in the game -- and this one is for all the marbles, including the posterity and future of our species. We who are "the resistance" are the thorn in their side, forcing them to greater and greater lengths of desperation and autocratic imposition on our freedoms at a rapidly increasing rate -- deemed necessary in the event the "rabble" might "rise up" and assert their considerable number and power against the oligarchy. They are fighting with the most important weapon constrained - they are fighting in the dark for the fallen one and we are standing firm in the victory of the One who purchased us and redeemed us with His blood and who holds all things in His capable, compassionate, and all-knowing care. Their time will come, in the meantime, being wise as serpents, peaceful as doves and alert to the wiles of the evil one are our cautions.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 when they say peace & safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them…