Secure Communities is simply the first of a number of biometric interoperability systems being brought on line by the . . . Next Generation Identification (NGI) initiative.”

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/06/2304400/fbi-joins-effort-to-identify-undocumented.html#ixzz1RYUvx62L

Next Generation Identification 

Finger Prints and other Biometrics

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi