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Volume 5 June 2016 Edition MOSA Awarded New Contracts from FBI (Learn More – Video) Today, the FBI’s Biometric Center of Excellence (BCOE)—located in Clarksburg, West Virginia—is the FBI’s program for exploring and advancing the use of new and enhanced biometric technologies and capabilities for integration into operations. Every day, the BCOE strives to deliver state-of-the-art biometric tools and technologies to law enforcement and intelligence personnel working in communities around the world. MOSA Technology Solutions, LLC has been awarded several new contracts valued at $750,000.00 by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide a variety of new biometric capture devices and solutions FBI Biometric Center of Excellence (BCOE) MOSA Technology Solutions, LLC today announced that it has been awarded several new contracts valued at $750,000.00 by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide a variety of new biometric capture devices and solutions. The FBI recently launched Next Generation IAFIS (NGI) which replaced the original IAFIS System launched in July, 1999. NGI is the largest criminal fingerprint database in the world holding criminal histories for more than 70 million subjects, along with 34 million civil prints. Included in the database are fingerprints from 73,000 known and suspected terrorists processed by the U.S. or by international law enforcement agencies. “MOSA’s ability to source the best of breed products and systems across the biometric identification in- dustry, combined with our ability to customize and integrate the system, were driving factors behind FBI decision,” said Paul Frasca, President and CEO of MOSA Technology Solutions. “These new contracts demonstrates a rapidly growing confidence in our company’s extensive experience in biometrics and our agility in sourcing and implementing the best solution to meet our customer’s needs,” he added. The NGI system offers state-of-the-art biometric identification MOSA Technology Solutions is a biometric identiservices and compiles core capabilities that serve as the plat- fication solutions provider with extensive industry form for multimodal functionality. NGI provides automated fingerprint and latent search capabilities, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints to more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and other authorized criminal justice partners 24 hours a day, 365 relationships and experience. The company sourcdays a year. es, packages and delivers complete, open-system, (Point of Interest – Hisproven biometric solutions that precisely and aftorical review of ‘Fingerprint Scanner Bio- fordably meet customer needs. Device and vendor metrics Technology at agnostic, customers get the right solution for their the FBI’ featuring Tom requirements from the best of breed products and Bush, former Assistant Director of the FBI’s systems across the global biometric industry. Criminal Information Justice Services Division. Courtesy of the YouTube.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He1TYtfQxLE 11