Department of Defense: Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification. Version 2.0
Abstract
This Department of Defense (DoD) Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification (EBTS) is based on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory specification number 1-2007 (ITL 1-2007). The DoD's EBTS builds upon the ITL 1-2007 to meet DoD requirements via additions to and customizations of the ITL 1-2007 data format. The DoD EBTS was originally developed as an interface to the DoD Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). The DoD ABIS is an electronic database and an associated set of software applications that support the storage, retrieval, and searching of fingerprint and latent data collected from persons of national security interest. The DoD ABIS was designed to be similar to the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) and therefore its interface was based on the FBI's Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS). Because of the different nature of DoD encounters and detainment circumstances, the DoD has additional operational requirements beyond those defined in the FBI EFTS. The DoD-unique capabilities are defined in the DoD EBTS. Following extensive expert review and multiple revisions, the first widely distributed version (version 1.2) of the DoD EBTS was released in November 2006. That document described a set of capabilities that had been implemented in the DoD Biometric Enterprise as well as defining future capabilities. DoD EBTS version (v) 1.2 was based on the FBI Electronic Fingerprint Transmission Specification (EFTS) v7.0 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000. Since the release of DoD EBTS v1.2, a number of events have necessitated a new version of the DoD EBTS-version 2.0.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 27, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA518194