Since our earliest days, CPI has consistently been a technology leader in the law enforcement and criminal justice information sharing industry. We invite you to explore our many accomplishments throughout the years—all geared towards improving the safety of the men and women who protect and serve.
On December 4th, 2011, Computer Projects of Illinois (CPI) and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) performed a conversion and cutover from an OpenFox™ Gateway to a fully functioning Message Switching Information Broker system. This brings the total of OpenFox ™ Message Switching Information Broker system is now operational in 27 States.
CPI OpenFox™ Messenger licenses exceed 44,000 deployed
OpenFox™ Mobile Messenger released
NICB VIN Assist integrated with OpenFox™ Messenger
Arkansas (ACIC) contract CPI to replace LINXX & Cyberlinxx with CPI OpenFox™ Messenger statewide
CPI launches new www.openfox.com website
Michigan brings the OpenFox™ Message switch into production with the new LEIN application (Next Generation LEIN - NGL)
Wyoming awards CPI a contract for a sex offender system
CPI moves to Bolingbrook, IL
Kansas Bureau of Investigation awards CPI the contract for statewide replacement of the KCJIS CMS Client software with a CPI OpenFox™ Gateway for OpenFox™ Messenger
Hawaii OpenFox™ Message switch upgraded on IBM pSeries (AIX) witch Configurator, High Availability, Operator Aid, Messenger,and Archive Retrieval
US Postal Investigative Services (USPS) OpenFox™ Message switch upgraded to latest version including High Availability and Operator Aid
Arkansas installs the OpenFox™ Validation system
Virginia is the first to deploy OpenFox™ Messenger in their Administrative Office of the Courts
Maryland OpenFox™ Message Switch latest version installed as well as the OpenFox™ Hotfiles
3rd Annual CPI Users Conference was held at Willowbrook Holiday Inn Conference Center
Site Automated Monitoring (SAM) announced at the Nlets Annual Conference
South Dakota Bureau of Information & Technology upgraded to latest version of the OpenFox™ system
Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services places OpenFox™ Message Switch into production
Wisconsin Department of Justice, Crime Information Bureau OpenFox™ Message Switch software upgraded to support NCIC 2000
CPI upgraded the Maine State Police system to IBM pSeries. This is the forth generation of platformed utilized Maine State Police for the Message Switch
Iowa Department of Public Safety implemented a new interface to a new Vehicle Registration system utilizing GJXDM and Web Services
OpenFox™ Messenger supports images
OpenFox™ FoxTalk protocol meets CJIS security policy FIPS-197 Certified AES Encryption
OpenFox™ Desktop Client released
OpenFox™ Messenger supports automatic generation of Hit Confirmation from an NCIC hit response
OpenFox™ Messenger and OpenFox™ Message Switching System utilize XML in all traffic
CPI welcomes the Mississippi Justice Information Center as a new OpenFox™ Message switch customer
CPI OpenFox™ Messenger introduced
The Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (TLETS) joins the CPI OpenFox™ family as the largest implementation to date
2nd Annual CPI Users Conference held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Willowbrook, IL
Idaho State Police OpenFox™ Message Switching system was placed into operation at noon on July 20, 2004
CPI hosts a hospitality and Nlets functions in Madison, WI at the Nlets Annual Conference
CPI issued an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) compliance certificate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
CPI converted the Indiana Hot Files as well as the CHRIS system and installed OpenFox™ Archival and Retrieval system
Indiana placed the OpenFox™ Message Switch into production in early May supporting the standard interfaces and L.U. 6.2 interfaces to the IBM mainframe for legacy terminal support.
Inaugural First Annual CPI Users Conference held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Willowbrook, Illinois (attending IA, SD, SD, RI, WI, VI, AR, Homeland Security, Naval Investigation and DOJ)
Ohio placed the OpenFox™ Message Switch into production in April, 2003 bridging to the Unisys mainframe, local users, NCIC, Nlets, and interfaces to JBM protocol converts.
CPI moves into two additional units at the Westmont, IL complex that was recently purchased
CPI awarded the Vermont State Police contract thru competitive bid for the OpenFox™ Message Switch
Ohio OpenFox™ Hotfiles System (HFS) went into production
Wyoming OpenFox™ Message Switch becomes operation supporting traditional message switching functions
Maryland OpenFox™ Message Switch goes into production supporting Nlets, NCIC, BMV
Quote from the winter issue of the newsletter "The Wisconsin OpenFox™ processes over 700,000 messages per day"
Winter issue of the CPI Newsletter asks our users if they would be interested in a OpenFox™ Users Group meeting once a year in Westmont
CPI first OpenFox™ application running under Windows NT/2000 went live at the USNCB (United States National Central Bureau) in Washington, DC
CPI announces OpenFox™ Markup Language (OFML)
CPI hosts a hospitality and Nlets functions in Orlando, FL at the Nlets Annual Conference
South Dakota Bureau of Information & Technology upgrades to the OpenFox™ system on redundant IBM RS/6000 model F80
Wisconsin Department of Justice, Crime Information Bureau placed the original OpenFox™ systems into operation
North Dakota State Radio was the first OpenFox™ Message Switch installation
Message Switch was first announced
State of South Dakota installs FOX
Original FOX Message Switch installed at the Maine State Police
