The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) Next Generation Identification (NGI) program represents a leap forward in the availability of biometric services to local, state, tribal, and federal criminal justice agencies. The goal of NGI is to replace the FBI’s workhorse Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) with state-of-the-art multi-modal biometric services that provide not only the legacy tenprint and latent fingerprint searches, but also palm print services; rapid by-the-side-of-the-road fingerprint identification; facial recognition investigative services; text-based scars, marks, and tattoo searches—even iris services are in planning. NGI is being built within the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) of FBI, alongside the National Crime Identification Center (NCIC), the National Sex Offender Registry, Uniform Crime Reporting, and the other CJIS programs. The FBI is also separately investigating Rapid DNA services that would serve as the perfect complement to the enhanced NGI services.