FBI
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The FBI is the lead investigating agency in the Orlando, Florida mass shooting. Less visible is that the FBI also provides a range of services to victims of terrorism and mass violent crimes. Services include crisis canines and a victims assistance webpage. Kathryn Turman, assistant director of the FBI's office of victims assistance, shares what's going on in Orlando on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
June 23, 2016 -
Just as after the Boston Marathon bombings, expect questions on what did the FBI, the intelligence community and Homeland Security, know, share and act on.
June 14, 2016 -
The department's Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) now has the ability to give access to users based on their job functions and attributes, not merely the person's name or employee number. Donna Roy, executive director of the Information Sharing Environment Office at DHS, said that capability is helping the department build trusted identity exchanges.
May 10, 2016 -
Director James Comey announced to staff that Gordon Bitko has been chosen to be the new CIO.
April 14, 2016 -
Today, law enforcement agencies look to technologies, such as body-worn cameras, to reduce crime. However, while body-worn cameras provide public safety benefits, they also create a new type of public safety challenge: data security.
March 23, 2016 -
The Air Force and FBI are adapting their approaches to enterprise IT to become more agile.
March 04, 2016 -
Depending on whose numbers you believe, federal workers are either overpaid by 34 percent or underpaid by 25 percent compared to the private sector.
February 22, 2016 -
While the FBI remains in the planning stages of its new headquarters construction project, the agency's new biometrics technology center has been working on projects to build on the breakthrough successes it's had with fingerprint technology.
February 19, 2016 -
I see the FBI-Apple dispute as a cyber version of the "ticking bomb" conundrum: What means are justified to get information from a terrorist when you know there is a bomb ticking somewhere about to kill innocent people?
February 18, 2016 -
FBI Director Jim Comey should drive out to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus on the outskirts of Fort Belvoir.
February 01, 2016 -
Given the Washington area’s notorious gridlock getting to work intact is a challenge on a good day. After a couple of feet of snow ...
January 29, 2016 -
The budget request comes as the General Services Administration announces Phase II for the FBI headquarters project.
January 22, 2016 -
The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said about half of the nation's data would be at risk if the Education Department was hacked.
January 07, 2016 -
The FBI will hire more than 230 National Instant Criminal Background Check System examiners and other specialists, nearly double its existing workforce, to help process mandatory background checks. The agency is also partnering with the U.S. Digital Service to overhaul the NICS.
January 05, 2016 -
Stephen Morris, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, said the five-year effort to build the Next Generation Identification system (NGI) has delivered on its promises and then some, giving examiners faster and more accurate processing of fingerprints and other biometrics.
December 22, 2015