{"id":312889,"date":"2025-07-30T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312889"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:15:50","slug":"trumps-fbi-inks-contract-to-vastly-expand-and-centralize-its-biometric-surveillance-and-data-collection-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312889","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s FBI inks contract to vastly expand and centralize its biometric surveillance and data-collection capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter July 29, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

We are living in the midst of a historic, accelerating convergence of biometric surveillance and national security infrastructure, capable of sweeping up endless reams of personal data on immigrants and Americans alike.<\/p>\n

In the latest evidence of that trend, Biometric Update reports<\/a><\/strong> that the FBI has awarded a $128 million one-year contract to a company called Leidos, to modernize the agency\u2019s sprawling biometric and criminal history database known as the Next Generation Identification<\/a><\/strong>, or NGI, system. The FBI will have options to renew the contract for up to another four years.<\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contract, announced Tuesday, marks the latest evolution in a decades-long effort by the FBI to centralize and enhance the way federal, state, local, and international partners identify individuals suspected of criminal activity or are flagged for national security reasons using rapidly advancing biometric technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy Stevens, president of Leidos\u2019 national security sector, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cLeidos has long partnered with the FBI to deliver mission-critical biometric systems, including NGI, the largest, most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history data. Leidos\u2019 work with the FBI to improve the system\u2019s accuracy facilitates many more criminal identifications, helping to keep America safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Biometric Update, NGI is much more than just a fingerprint repository.<\/p>\n

It is the most expansive biometric identity system in the world<\/em><\/strong>, encompassing multimodal data inputs including facial recognition, palm prints, iris scans, voice data, scars and tattoos, and, increasingly, behavioral biometrics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since its initial rollout in 2011, NGI has served as the core operational system within the FBI\u2019s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia. It processes millions of biometric transactions daily and supports hundreds of thousands of users across law enforcement, immigration, counterterrorism, and border security.<\/p>\n

The new contract granted to Leidos mandates a comprehensive overhaul of NGI\u2019s digital architecture and operational capabilities. This modernization includes the integration of new biometric matching algorithms, machine learning\u2013driven analytics, mobile and cloud-based application support, and the reengineering of core software and hardware infrastructure using AI to boost agility, speed, and interoperability.<\/p>\n

This contract comes on the heels of another awarded to Leidos in May worth $130 million over five years to support the FBI\u2019s Fingerprint Analysis Support Team Biometric Services program<\/a>. According to Biometric Update, this contract \u201cmarked a significant development in the FBI\u2019s efforts to modernize and enhance its biometric identification capabilities and further solidified Leidos\u2019 position as a critical partner in advancing federal law enforcement technology infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is more of the beast system developing at warp speed before our very eyes.<\/p>\n

Putting this type of tech in the hands of a notoriously corrupt and, in my opinion, unconstitutional agency, is unconscionable.<\/p>\n

But, at this point, nothing is going to slow it down, not when you have an arch technocrat residing in the White House surrounded by handlers who crave endless techno-surveillance \u201cupgrades\u201d with all manner of tagging and tracking capabilities.<\/p>\n

Washington is out of control, and quickly turning America into a high-tech police state.<\/p>\n

Subscribe<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Americans were distracted by the ‘threat’ from Russia\/China\/Iran Trump has quietly expanded the U.S. domestic surveillance infrastructure. Ostensibly, to \u2018keep America safe\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"featured_media":210419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Implants_and_surveillance_technology","category-Surveillance","category-The_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312908,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312889\/revisions\/312908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}