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N-DEx Is Changing How Law Enforcement Fights Crime and Terrorism
Last Updated: 07/28/2011*
In a major initiative sponsored by the FBI and its criminal justice partners, Raytheon completed the latest increment of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) criminal justice information sharing system. The system is now fully operational and managed by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, allowing 200,000 investigators in more than 18,000 local, state, tribal and federal criminal justice agencies to share information on criminal cases.
While supporting the information sharing needs of all levels of law enforcement, N-DEx ensures security and protects privacy in the handling, storing and sharing of sensitive incident-based information. The comprehensive set of Web services now includes the production of information alerts about persons of interest when new records are entered into the system.
As N-DEx deployment continues to expand, users are estimated to make about six million queries per day through the system. These queries will be at the heart of the critical mission of moving key investigative information across disparate systems and jurisdictional boundaries, and into the hands of those who need to know. Users querying N-DEx will be able to "connect the dots" among seemingly unrelated data, uncovering hidden relationships among people, places, things and crime.
The FBI's ultimate goal is to transform all available criminal justice data into knowledge for the entire justice community, which supports the Bureau's and its partners' long-term vision of information sharing across a wider set of agencies and boundaries.
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Raytheon and FBI Complete National Data Exchange to Help Fight Crime and Terrorism
Posted: 25-Jul-2011
N-DEx in Action
An investigator in the Las Vegas area searched N-DEx for a drug trafficking case and found previously unavailable information on a connection to his investigation from a case at a southern California agency. Thanks to the ability of N-DEx to rapidly connect the dots, this collaboration between agencies provided critical information that may not have otherwise been discovered, and lead to search warrants and ultimately an arrest.
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