FBI: Under the Gun - ' FBI Base Case '
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FBI Base Case
Headquarters: J. Edgar Hoover Building, 935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20535
Phone: (202) 324-3000
Business: As the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice, the FBI's more than 11,000 special agents and 16,000 support personnel investigate crimes as well as provide other law enforcement agencies with cooperative services such as fingerprint identification, laboratory examinations and police training.
Acting Chief Information Officer: W. Wilson Lowery
Financials: Annual budget in excess of $4.3 billion in fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
Challenge: Improve ability to collect, analyze and share data with other law enforcement agencies in order to preclude terrorist attacks.
Baseline Goals:
Update information systems by 2004 to enable sharing of intelligence with other law enforcement and security agencies.
Institute a method of tracking cases using Internet communications by December 2003, with budget of $40 million.
Increase hiring of technology specialists, to improve tracking of terrorist activity and suspects. Sixty-six such agents hired in fiscal 2002 and 114 in fiscal 2003.
Projects: Security 
