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Drug Enforcement Administration

November 24, 2009 - 4:07pm


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The Drug Enforcement Administration is trying to keep up with the drug cartels on several different levels.

It's trying to stop them from bringing narcotics across the border. And at the same time, the DEA faces a big challenge around the technology the cartels are using to communicate and find ways across the border.

Preston Grubbs, DEA's chief information officer and assistant administrator for operational support, is trying to reduce that technological gap.

Grubbs says more and more DEA agents soon will have Blackberry access to sensitive, but unclassified data that will save time and improve what they know about cases and people they stop.

He also says an agency now can access this information now, but through the use of the handhelds, the data is available almost immediately instead of having to wait up to one minute.

Additionally, DEA's top priority is its next generation case management system that will put all information into one central system instead of multiple systems that require redundant data inputs.

It currently is in 10 of 21 field divisions and should be completed by the end of 2011.
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