FBI switches to faster fingerprint identification technology

New system could reduce print matching time to ten minutes (CIO.co.uk)

The old AFIS fingerprint-matching system took up to two hours to respond to a fingerprint pattern-matching request in criminal cases and 24 hours for civil cases, says Traxler. "Our goal for criminal prints is now 10 minutes, and civil, 15 minutes," says Traxler.

John Traxler is the program manager for NGI in the FBI's Clarksburg, WV facility. Clarksburg is right down the road from our offices in Morgantown.