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Tom Bush

Mr. Bush’s FBI career and experiences include:

January 2005 – March 2009 - Assistant Director, FBI, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, Clarksburg, WV
Mr Bush has served as Chief Executive Officer over the FBI’s largest Division comprising approximately 2,400 employees and 400 contract employees and an annual operating budget of more than $600 million. He was directly involved in the development and furtherance of groundbreaking Biometric Interoperability efforts with DHS, DoD, DOS and the International community to promote biometric information exchange. He provided oversight of the development and deployment of the next generation of CJIS services such as Next Generation Identification (ten-year life cycle costs of $850 million, development costs of approximately $500 million), for enhanced fingerprint services, and N-DEx (ten-year life cycle costs of $260 million, development costs of $100 million), which will allow law enforcement agencies to share actual crime incident reporting.

October 2002 - January 2005 - Special Agent in Charge, FBI, St. Louis Division
He was directly responsibility for the administrative and investigative operations of the FBI's St. Louis Field Office. He was responsible for developing and maintaining extensive liaison and working partnerships with federal, state, and local law enforcement. He also provided oversight of Gateway Information Sharing initiative, a pilot project for what ultimately developed into the Department of Justice’s R-DEx initiative.

July 2000 - October 2002 - Section Chief, Programs Development Section, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI, Clarksburg, WV
Mr Bush was responsible for researching and developing emerging initiatives for incorporation into CJIS services. Such initiatives included research and pilot initiatives regarding impact of less than ten print rolled impressions relative to Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), flat fingerprint capture devices, palm print systems, 3rd generation wireless use of CJIS services and latent fingerprint connectivity. In conjunction with Interpol, he promoted international standards and interoperability regarding Automated Fingerprint Identification System technology. Following the events of 9/11, he established CJIS "fly-away teams" to respond to disaster areas to aid in victim identifications, directed CJIS personnel internationally to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. He developed extensive state, local, national, and international liaison contacts through involvement with the CJIS Advisory Policy Board, Compact Council, and Interpol IAFIS Expert Working Group.