JUSTNET - NLECTC Northeast Mission

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NLECTC Northeast Mission

NLECTC-Northeast's mission is to work with government, industry, and academia to identify, evaluate, demonstrate, develop, and assess technology applications for law enforcement and corrections. Established in 1996 and co-located with the Air Force Research Laboratory - Information Directorate (AFRL/IF) in Rome, New York, NLECTC-Northeast has developed a unique partnership. AFRL/IF's mission is the advancement and application of information systems science and technology to meet the Air Force unique requirements for information dominance and its transition to aerospace systems to meet warfighter needs. AFRL/IF's major thrust areas include global awareness, dynamic planning and execution, and global information enterprise which focus on information exploitation/fusion/understanding; planning and execution; command, control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance decision technology; Joint Battlespace Infosphere; high performance computing and signal image processing; information assurance; and connectivity. This partnership allows NLECTC-Northeast to draw upon the engineers of AFRL to help assess the adaptation and development of products and technologies designed for the military with transfer to law enforcement.

NLECTC-Northeast's technology areas of emphasis include concealed weapons detection, through-the-wall surveillance, electronic crime, audio processing, imagery analysis, timeline analysis, information extraction, secure communications, communications interoperability, information sharing, and information management.

The Law Enforcement Analysis Facility (LEAF) is part of NLECTC-Northeast and provides a link to transfer many Air Force technologies to law enforcement and correction agencies. LEAF engineers utilize real-world investigative and criminal data provided by the law enforcement and corrections agencies to demonstrate how many Air Force technologies can be modified to benefit law enforcement and corrections efforts. Agencies submit audio or videotapes to the facility for audio/video enhancement, noise reduction, audio tape certification, speaker identification, or frame capturing.

The LEAF houses the speech enhancement unit (SEU); speaker recognition, speaker identification and keyword recognition technology; spoken language translation software; web-based timeline analysis (WebTAS) software; video/image enhancement software; facial recognition technology; information extraction software; voice stress analyzer technologies; and secure-stego, an AFRL developed data hiding and watermarking technology. These technologies are available at the LEAF for immediate demonstration/application to all law enforcement and corrections agencies.

The CyberScience Laboratory is co-located at NLECTC-Northeast. The mission of the CyberScience Laboratory is to develop industry and academic collaboration to address cybercrime technical issues, facilitate cybercrime training, and distribute cybercrime technology and tools to state and local law enforcement agencies. The goals are to heighten national awareness of cybercrime, provide technology assistance, and share their forensic tool knowledge base with the entire NLECTC system, state crime laboratories, and local law enforcement agencies.

NLECTC-Northeast also manages operational test beds which include integration and evaluation of technologies; e.g. communications interoperability, with various public safety agencies.

The map below depicts area of operational responsibility for the Northeast Center. Please click on the map or text links below to view the representative agencies on the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of NLECTC-Northeast.