FBI Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)

As CODIS is an established system, the return on investment for its original development, and for the re-architecture of the CODIS software as Next Generation CODIS (NGCODIS 6.0/7.0) have been achieved. The resulting reductions in routine search times allows local and state lab's resources to manage their workload more efficiently, and in the case of some crimes, time is of the essence, so faster response times often make a difference in solving a case, and cannot be measured in quantitative terms. The incorporation of Missing Persons identification functionality within NGCODIS 6.0 provides and continues to provide further immeasurable qualitative benefit to the public, domestic and internationally, whenever a missing person identification is made. With rapidly deployable software at the ready, crisis support has become easier and has and will continue to assist in mass disaster identification (such as the Bangladesh garment district building collapse, Air France Flight 447 and the Victorian Brushfires in Australia.) The CODIS Program has also continually looked for ways to control operational costs to further promote return-on-investment. Continued development of the CODIS software has allowed end users to further refine the criteria used for detecting matches among DNA profiles, improved interoperability between CODIS and external systems, increased automation within the software and reduced time-to-answer for high priority crimes. With the introduction of 8.0 in 2018, CODIS became compliant with the Rapid DNA Identification Act of 2017, paving the way for the analysis of samples from known individuals in the booking environment with automatic enrollment and searching in the database . To date, CODIS has aided in over 500,000 investigations.

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