New Surveillance Programs Look Ahead as FBI Seeks to Overcome Past Criticism


	New Surveillance Programs Look Ahead as FBI Seeks to Overcome Past Criticism

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According to FBI officials, the program is designed to help the agency deal with changing technology and ways to intercept phone calls such as those used by VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)  phones or technology such as Skype. The program is also conducting research on ways to conduct automated analysis to look for links between subjects of surveillance and other <A target="external" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/05/intelligence-re.html">investigative suspects</A>.
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Eventually, the Biometric project will be a vast database of personal data including fingerprints, iris scans and DNA which the FBI calls the Next Generation Identification (NGI).
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The FBI has awarded the NGI contract to Lockheed Martin to update and maintain the database which is expected to come online in 2010. After being fully deployed the NGI contract could cost up to $1 billion.
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