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…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (CFDA 16.813 - NICS Act Record Improvement Program) provides $1,283,165 to the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) to enhance the completeness, accuracy, and automation of criminal justice records reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

The key goals are to ensure the state's message switch is converted to the NIEM/XML format to be compatible with the FBI CJIS Division, other states, and territories. This will improve the state's information sharing through N-DEX and make the NICS indices NIEM/XML compatible. The 2-year award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026.

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 fbis cjis divisions ncic standard. This is limiting our ability for future enhancements with the ncics 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 drivers 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 states information sharing through N-DEX and getting the nics indices NIEM/XML compatible.