Inside the FBI's Quantico headquarters a team of agents uses advanced technology from contractors like Mitre Corporation to drill into videos and photos for clues to solve major crimes.
Looking through contract records, Mitre was the biggest tech and services provider for the unit, receiving nearly $20 million in contracts. The only other major supplier was Azimuth Inc, from West Virginia, which received $15 million. The first contracts for the unit were handed out in 2016, according to a review of federal procurement records.that the unit is a small, specialist division within the FBI whose sole focus is to build software to analyze photo and video in major crimes.
“If you're collecting terabytes of video information from a horrific scene or a horrific event, the MXU comes in with their tools. They help investigative personnel make that footage usable. They parse out what we call non-pertinent footage. And they provide analytics and identification to pertinent investigative information in that video footage,” Piehota adds. “They were key in all of the mass shootings that happened over the past several years in the United States.
The FBI acknowledged a request for comment on the MXU provided comment at the time of publication. Mitre had previously repeatedly declinedMXU is one of many collaborations between Mitre and the FBI. They’ve had a working relationship since at least the 1990s, when the elite government labs provider started to expand beyond its typical aviation and military work.
, Instagram and Twitter. The two also worked together to build the Next Generation Identification system, said by the FBI to be “the world's largest and most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history information.” As described by Piehota, it’s a place where any law enforcement body in the U.S. can look up fingerprints, faces or other biometric information of criminal suspects. , and other dark web investigations.
Mitre’s work with the law enforcement goes beyond snooping, however. One additional contract obtained bydetails its work on protecting the FBI's own data. It asks Mitre to ensure the FBI’s Information and Technology Branch to develop access rules for the agency’s “top secret, secret and unclassified” information troves. As much of Mitre’s own work for the FBI covers both targeted and mass surveillance, the nonprofit will be helping keep its own work under lock and key.
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