[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 205 (Thursday, October 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 63448]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25298]


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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY


Achieving Interoperability for Latent Fingerprint Identification: 
A Report

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The National Science and Technology Council's Committee on 
Science requests public comment on the draft report Achieving 
Interoperability for Latent Fingerprint Identification in the United 
States. The draft report will be posted at www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/shareyourinput. Comments of 
approximately three pages or fewer in length (12,000 characters) are 
requested and must be received by November 26, 2014 to be considered.

DATES: Responses must be received by November 26, 2014 to be 
considered.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
    <bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2f617c7b6c70434e5b4a415b6f405c5b5f01484059"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="327c6166716d5e5346575c46725d4146421c555d44">[email protected]</span></a>. Include [AFIS 
Interoperability] in the subject line of the message.
    <bullet> Fax: (202) 456-6040, Attn: Tania Simoncelli.
    <bullet> Mail: Attn: Tania Simoncelli, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 1650 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20504.
    Instructions: Respondents may submit their comments (3 pages or 
fewer) through one of the above methods. Submission via email is 
preferred. Responses to this request for public comment may be posted 
without change online. OSTP therefore requests that no business 
proprietary information, copyrighted information, or sensitive 
personally identifiable information be submitted in response to this 
request. Please note that the U.S. Government will not pay for response 
preparation, or for the use of any information contained in the 
response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tania Simoncelli, (202) 456-4444, 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dd938e899e82b1bca9b8b3a99db2aea9adf3b8b2adf3bab2ab"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="743a2720372b181500111a00341b0700045a111b045a131b02">[email protected]</span></a>, OSTP.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This request for public comment offers the 
opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to comment on 
the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Science 
draft report entitled Achieving Interoperability for Latent Fingerprint 
Identification in the United States. The report is available at 
www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/shareyourinput.
    In 2010, the NSTC created a Subcommittee on Forensic Science (SoFS) 
to assess the challenges of and opportunities for implementing 
recommendations made by the National Research Council (NRC) in its 2009 
report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path 
Forward www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf. Among its 
recommendations, the NRC called on the Federal Government to launch a 
``broad-based effort to achieve nationwide fingerprint data 
interoperability.'' In response to this recommendation, the SoFS 
chartered the AFIS Interoperability Task Force with the goal of 
coordinating the development of a strategic plan for achieving this 
goal. This report, Achieving Interoperability for Latent Fingerprint 
Identification in the United States, evolved out of the work of the 
Task Force. The report describes the current state of latent 
interoperability among Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems 
(AFIS) and identifies a series of actions that can be taken by Federal 
agencies to implement the standards needed to achieve interoperability, 
develop an overarching national connectivity strategy and 
infrastructure, and support State and local agencies in building 
connections across jurisdictions.

Ted Wackler,
Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Director.
[FR Doc. 2014-25298 Filed 10-22-14; 8:45 am]
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