Nlets Overview

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Nlets Overview

• May, 2007

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Nlets

• Nlets links every U.S. State and Federal agency,
  to each other and to RCMP CPIC
• Nlets is an international criminal justice HUB
• 90 Million transactions a month
• 600,000 PC, Mobile and handheld devices in the
  U.S. and Canada
• Law Enforcement
• Public Safety
• 30 thousand agencies
• 1 million individual users

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Nlets User Agencies.

• State, Provincial and local law enforcement
• RCMP
• Interpol
• FBI CJIS
• Secret Service
• Transportation
• Defense
• Justice
• Interior
• Customs and Border Protection

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Did you know that

• In the past five years Nlets has completely
  changed out its technology
• Is now a leader in off the shelf internet
  protocols
• Facilitates exchanges never thought of before
• Actively funds states to adopt new global
  technologies to improve information exchange
• Has sufficient bandwidth to do most anything

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Reliability

• Private T1 Network
• VPN Triple DES encryption
• Fire-walled at every connection
• Hot Disaster Recovery Site Idaho
• Store and Forward Guaranteed
• Message Delivery
• Operation center 7 x 24 x 365
• 99.97 uptime

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Legacy services

• Wanted persons
• Stolen vehicles
• Driver and vehicle registration
• Stolen articles
• Stolen guns
• Stolen securities
• Stolen boats
• Criminal history records

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Plus

• State and FBI Criminal Histories in standardized
  format
• Electronic HIT confirmation
• Canadian HOT Files
• Homeland Alert Messages
• Screen Officers Flying Armed
• INS Databases at LESC
• Amber Alerts
• Severe weather warnings
• Aircraft Registrations
• GSA Federal Plates
• Admin Messages as eMail

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Doing the right things .

• Nlets is making electronic access to Interpol
  warrants possible
• Nlets is actively working on exchanging local and
  regional data interstate
• Nlets is about to begin the interstate exchange
  of DL Photos

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For the right reasons

• Portal to provide broader based access to state
  and local data
• Begin state XML Rapsheet funding to extend the
  rap-sheet project
• License Plate Reader data captured at borders
  available to LEAs

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Grants.

• RAND Random Access to Nlets Data
• CANDLE Collaboration between AAMVA and Nlets
  for Drivers License Exchange
• AISLE Accelerated Information Sharing for Law
  Enforcement
• SRFERS (sub-grantee) State, Regional, Federal
  Enterprise Retrieval System

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Grants.

• NISP Nlets Interstate Sharing of Photos

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Projects

• Railroad car content Operation Respond
• XML standard messaging GJXDM and NIEM
• Access to state warrant files Pilot
• NVPS National Virtual Pointer System

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Projects

• Army access to Nlets via satellite in Iraq for
  detainee information
• Web portal
• Insurenet roadside verification of insurance
• Hundreds more..

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Partnerships

• US federal agencies
• Customs and Border Patrol
• Coast Guard
• Drug Enforcement agency
• Interpol
• New Partnerships with Microsoft and Cisco
• Corporate sponsorships, resource sharing

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Partnerships

• ATS/Voyager Systems
• CPI/Openfox
• Affiliated Computer Systems
• ALEN
• Lasercraft
• Appriss
• LoJack
• Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc.
• Insurenet
• American Traffic Solutions, Inc.
• Datamaxx
• Redflex Traffic Systems

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Nlets financial aid.

• Nlets will continue to expand its role as leaders
  and facilitators of improved information sharing
• Nlets funnels nearly 75 of grant dollars to the
  states to accelerate the states abilities to
  improve their technology
• Nlets intends to create The Nlets Foundation to
  privately fund state and local technological
  improvements as new revenue streams become
  available

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The future stability, integrity.

• New 15,000 square foot building

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Vision, Integrity, Partnership

• To have leading edge technology
• To meet and exceed the expectations of justice
  and public safety professionals
• To find new (non-governmental) resources
• To do all with the resources that we have
• To always do the right things for the right
  reasons
• To never stop any of the above

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YOU, the user OWN IT you are the conduit to
change in Nlets we can add or modify things in a
matter of days if necessary the best ideas come
from you the users of the system you can make
a difference
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Questions?Bonnie Locke602-627-2715blocke_at_nlet
s.org