The FBI’s National Data Exchange (N-DEx) provides criminal justice agencies with a mechanism for sharing, searching, linking, and analyzing information across jurisdictional boundaries. A national repository of criminal justice records submitted by agencies from around the nation, N-DEx uses those records to connect the dots between data on people, places, and things that may seem unrelated in order to link investigations…and investigators. 

The IJIS Institute supports N-DEx through the development of information exchange standards and training, as well as through TA engagements to assist state, local, and tribal agencies with the integration of their own justice information system to the N-DEx system.

Available N-DEx resources from the IJIS Institute include: an N-DEx Overview, the N-DEx Policy Operating Manual, and the NDE-x Trail Guide.