FY2002 Budget Summary

1. 2002 Winter Olympics Support

Security and public safety planning is currently underway for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. The FBI is extensively involved in these efforts with other federal, state and local agencies. The FBI requests $12,302,000 for travel, lease of vehicles, utilities costs and federal overtime for security and other investigative duties that will help the FBI to both preempt and mitigate the potential for threats and acts of terrorism.

2. Recurring Security Services

Consistent with GSA recommendations for building security, as well as threats of violence aimed at federal facilities and employees, the FBI is relocating field offices to sole tenant facilities as existing leases expire. For 2002, the FBI requests $2,020,000 for security requirements, including $1,600,000 for contract guard services for 6 field offices and $420,000 for physical security requirements at FBI Headquarters.

3. Incident Response Readiness

The FBI requests 42 positions (8 agents), 21 workyears, and $17,737,000 to support its responsibilities relative to advanced render safe activities involving chemical, biological, or radiological improvised explosive devices by terrorists or others.

1. Counterencryption

The expanding use of digitally-based telecommunications technologies and the growing prevalence of computer networks facilitates the use of cryptography by criminals and terrorists, thereby diminishing law enforcement's ability to access information collected under court-authorized communications intercepts. The FBI requests 13 positions, 6 workyears, and $8,202,000 to ensure the ability to collect evidence and intelligence through the development, deployment and support of counterencryption and electronic analysis capabilities. Of the total, $7,000,000 will be used to acquire equipment and services to further law enforcement's counterencryption capabilities.

2. Data Network Interception

The recent emergence of low cost computers, the Internet, and sophisticated users have led to an increase in "high tech" crime, placing pressure on the investigator to apply "high tech" investigative techniques and approaches to keep pace. The FBI requests 7 positions (2 agents), 4 workyears, and $7,664,000 to examine emerging and future data network communications technologies, conduct research, and develop solutions for performing court-authorized electronic surveillance in network environments.

3. Tactical Operations Support

The FBI requests 10 positions (4 agents), 5 workyears, and $1,358,000 to provide FBI field offices with investigative assistance pursuant to court-authorized communications intercepts.

4. Casa de Web

The FBI requests 3 positions, 2 workyears, and $10,920,000 for Casa de Web, a multi-year automated information initiative for storing and managing lawfully collected electronic surveillance intelligence and evidentiary material among FBI field offices. This system would be compatible with Trilogy and provide investigative agents, transcribers, and translators with controlled access to electronic evidence from distant field offices or remote locations consistent with security and privacy concerns. For FY 2001, funding has been proposed from the Asset Forfeiture Fund/Super Surplus. The FY 2002 funding would support second year costs of the program.

1. Information Technology

For FY 2002, the FBI requests $67,660,000 for the second year of Trilogy, FBI's 3-year information technology upgrade plan. Trilogy will provide FBI agents and support employees with improved information technology capabilities and tools that will aid criminal and national security investigations. Trilogy will provide upgrades in these key areas: network connectivity; information presentation; and user applications.

2. Telecommunications Services

The FBI requests $6,500,000 to acquire communications circuits and services for Legal Attache offices, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, and special task forces. Funding will provide increased bandwidth to support new applications deployed throughout the FBI. These circuits will support faster transmission of data and provide greater network reliability.

3. Laboratory Activation

The FY 2002 Infrastructure Initiative anticipates an allocation of $40,000,000 from the Department of Justice Working Capital Fund, if available, to activate the new Laboratory at Quantico and to decommission and renovate the old Laboratory space in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. In addition, the FBI requests 22 positions, 11 workyears, and $1,161,000 to support the operations and maintenance of the new FBI Laboratory, scheduled for occupancy in Spring/Summer 2002. During the final stages of construction of the new Laboratory, the personnel would assist with duties related to the physical commissioning of the building, including logistical support and space planning issues. After occupancy, the personnel would become a permanent addition to the operations and maintenance staff of the FBI complex, since the new Laboratory will increase gross square footage of facilities by approximately 35 percent.

4. Motor Vehicle Program

In FY 2002, the FBI requests $4,007,000 for the FBI's Motor Vehicle Program. Proposed funding would permit replacement of vehicles with mileage that exceeds replacement standards and which are more costly to operate and maintain. Funding totaling $2,557,000 would allow for the replacement of 110 automobiles with excessive mileage in FY 2002 and ensure an acceptable replacement standard. Additionally, $450,000 would be used for diagnostic tools for fleet maintenance and $1,000,000 for a Motor Vehicle Management System.

An increase of 17 reimbursable workyears is provided for health care fraud enforcement in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. The HIPAA provides a total of $101,000,000 for 2002, a $13,000,000 increase over 2001. Of this amount, $4,792,000 will be used to fund adjustments to base and the remaining $8,208,000 will fund an additional 34 positions (20 agents), and other operational expenses.