FBI Guardian
Investment ID: 011-000003373
Overview
Program Title
FBI Guardian
Description
The Guardian Program ensures that all counterterrorism threats and suspicious activities reports (SARs) are investigated expediently. eGuardian is the unclassified system for sharing SARs with state, local, and tribal law enforcement.
Type of Program
Non-major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The Guardian Program continues to implement enhancements to extend its capabilities and reduce administrative workload, which in turn reduces human error in investigation and analysis of threat. Recently, Guardian integrated with the FBI's case management program, significantly reducing administrative burden and enabling the Bureau to capture and exploit efficiencies by merging the two applications and streamline information sharing. Guardian also extended its capability beyond its counterterrorism function, to enable other investigative arms in the Bureau to use its capabilities to assist in threat analysis. In the upcoming years, Guardian will leverage new technologies to enable rapid deployment to production enhancements and improve application performance. eGuardian will leverage the same technology with the same benefits and is also working towards deploying a mobile capability, further extending the application's benefits to the Bureau's law enforcement partners.
These actions are an example of the Guardian program wisely and frugally using taxpayer dollars to the best extent possible. The integration of Guardian and the case management application increases employees' time to conduct other activities. The extension of Guardian to other investigative areas eliminated the need to fund a new application to handle the same task, thus preventing the pipelining of business and allowing for the sharing of information. The use of the new technology for the Guardian and eGuardian infrastructure enables the program to leverage economies of scale and reduce cost by only paying for resources (processor power, storage, services) used.
These actions are an example of the Guardian program wisely and frugally using taxpayer dollars to the best extent possible. The integration of Guardian and the case management application increases employees' time to conduct other activities. The extension of Guardian to other investigative areas eliminated the need to fund a new application to handle the same task, thus preventing the pipelining of business and allowing for the sharing of information. The use of the new technology for the Guardian and eGuardian infrastructure enables the program to leverage economies of scale and reduce cost by only paying for resources (processor power, storage, services) used.