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The Computer
Analysis and Response Team provides assistance to FBI field offices
in the search and seizure of computer evidence as well as forensic
examinations and technical support for FBI investigations. This Unit includes a state-of-the-art forensic
laboratory comprised of computer specialists and a network of
trained and equipped forensic examiners assigned to more than 50 field offices.
In 1999 the Unit conducted
2,400 examinations of computer evidence and provided technical
support for the investigation and prosecution of cases involving
such evidence. The Unit also provided all CART Laboratory examiners
and 75 percent of FBI field examiners with the pre-release version
of the Automated Computer Examination System (ACES), which combines
advanced computer hardware and software to conduct many routine
examinations in a self-documenting, automated method. All FBI
field divisions will receive ACES by the end of the year 2000.
In cooperation with the United States Attorney's Office and seven
other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, the
Unit established the San Diego Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory.
This laboratory is staffed by technically competent and CART-certified
personnel assigned by the participating agencies.
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In a move designed to enhance FBI efforts
in computer intrusion cases and to provide additional support,
the FBI Laboratory opened a CART satellite office in Linthicum,
Maryland. This office is supported through a cooperative effort
of the FBI and the Department of Defense Computer Forensic Laboratory
(DCFL). Through this effort, the Unit conducts computer forensic
analysis and shares developed technological principles, procedures,
and techniques with the DCFL. This relationship benefits both
the FBI and the DCFL by enhancing capabilities in the complex
research and development of tools used in examinations involving
computer intrusions and other online investigations. |
ACES (Automated Computer
Examination System) |
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For more information about computer evidence or the Computer
Analysis Response Team, see the Computer Examinations section of the Handbook of
Forensic Services.
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