NICS Act Record Improvement Program

Program goal(s) name: Improve FBI’s NICS Program goal(s) description: Improve the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by assisting states and tribes to improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records used by the NICS to state and federal systems. Program objective(s) name: Improve systems and infrastructure that support national record holdings and background check systems. Program objective(s) description: Ensure that the infrastructure is developed to connect state and tribal records systems to national records systems operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Next Generation Identification (NGI) standards, criminal history information available through the Interstate Identification Index (III), and National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Indices.