FBI and Department of Defense employees will use new ways to identify bad guys in the Biometrics Technology Center on the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division campus.
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — When the FBI moved its fingerprint division to Clarksburg in 1995, prints were on index cards stored in thousands of cabinets.
Twenty years later, over 100 million fingerprints are stored on a computer database, and employees of the Criminal Justice Information Services Division can make a match in a matter of minutes.
Now the FBI division has expanded its identification techniques to facial recognition and palm prints, and employees doing that work are moving into a new facility.
That new facility — the FBI Biometrics Technology Center — has been selected as Public Project of the Year by The Exponent Telegram Editorial Board.
Biometrics is the science of identifying individuals through physical traits such as face or voice recognition, palm prints and iris scans.
FBI employees who work in biometrics and workers with the U.S. Army’s Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency in Clarksburg will employ new ways to identify bad guys in the four-story, 360,000-square-foot building.
“Our goal is to have about 1,000 employees assigned to CJIS working out of that building…
