Photo: Determining the identity of the owners of latent prints is often key to crime scene research, such as the owner of this latent printed pulled from a fingernail file. A NIST test shows that ...

Futuristic-sounding technology such as iris or voice recognition are not that far away, according to Steven Martinez, executive assistant director at the science and technology branch at the FBI.

Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests of new technologies that automate the manual portion of latent fingerprint identification. Overworked crime scene ...

BRUNSWICK | The updating of the FBI's automated fingerprint identification system has resulted in a Midway man being charged with attempted kidnapping and making a terroristic threat in an incident ...

IAFIS consists of three basic integrated segments: the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), the Interstate Identification Index (III) and Identification Tasking and Networking (ITN).

The FBI said today it was getting close to completing a massive project that saw the agency convert more than 30 million records and 83 million fingerprint cards to the digital Next Generation ...

Spartanburg, South Carolina (USA) – 16 April 2019 - The Mexican passport was fake – an excellent fake, but still a fake. During a recent Florida traffic stop, the driver of a car could not produce a ...

New FBI technology -- including a sharper fingerprint identification system -- is helping police resolve cold cases, such as the 1997 slaying of a teenage runaway from the northwest suburbs whose ...

Viisage (Nasdaq: VISG) announced today the intention to acquire Nashville, Tennessee-based Integrated Biometric Technology (IBT), a leader in providing fingerprinting products, services and solutions ...

The FBI announced today that its billion-dollar Next Generation Identification (NGI) program is now fully operational. This new system is meant to act as a replacement for the agency’s Integrated ...