with a custom imaging application that can access 13.5 million sets of biometric data.
the four service centers, INS officials are awaiting a fiscal 1999 budget.
work, as well as the electronic data, to the four regional centers.
Inc. of Merrimack, N.H., converted the files into standard formats such as .gif and TIFF.
work was finished in August.
manual scanning of each proprietary archived file would have cost $18 million.
INS also wanted a scalable system to handle 4 million new immigration cases each year.
The system has enough capacity for 40 million more cases.
printed images by overnight delivery.
17-inch monitors and TCP/IP stacks. Servers are similarly configured.
benefits, enforcement and inspection services, Young said.