North Dakota FY24 NARIP

The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) is committed to improving III and NICS data. Currently in the State of North Dakota, our message switch is not National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), Extensible Markup Language (XML) compliant with the FBI’s CJIS Divisions NCIC standard.  This is limiting our ability for future enhancements with the NCIC’s new NG3 capabilities to include biometrics and National Data Exchange (N-Dex) information sharing. To address the capability issues, BCI has been working with the North Dakota State Radio (manages the message switch) and Computer Projects of Illinois (CPI, message switch vendor) to implement the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) forms on the message switch to NIEM/XML formatting.  This will enhance and help standardize the communications for law enforcement within and outside of the state for driver’s license, vehicle, non-felony warrants, and concealed weapons notifications. The goals of this grant and proposed activities is to ensure that the message switch is converted to NG3 and NIEM/XML files to be compatible with the FBI CJIS division, states, and territories.   This will improve the state’s information sharing through N-Dex and getting the NICS indices NIEM/XML compatible.