The FBI says it’s made a long-awaited switch from its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to an upgraded, faster one the FBI calls Advanced Fingerprint Information Technology (AFIT) The AFIT replacement prepares the way for going beyond fingerprint identification to other biometrics, including latent palm prints and facial recognition. The old AFIS fingerprint-matching system took up to two hours to respond to a fingerprint pattern-match request in criminal cases and 24 hours for civil cases, says John Traxler.”]