In July, the FBI opened up the sleek 256,000-square-foot Central Records Complex (CRC) in Winchester, Virginia. Hard at work inside the building are 500 agents and 100 robots. This is the first time this type of aut There are a few private commercial warehouses that have similar automatic storage and distribution systems, but there are no other government centers like the CRC using state-of-the-art technology like this. The new records retrieval facility is located about 90 miles from Washington, D.C. It cost $135 million to complete the construction. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) worked with the FBI on the design and standards of the facility. In an interview, Assistant Director of the FBI Information Management Division (IMD), Arlene Gaylord, explained how this is Phase II of the mission to consolidate the records of the FBI in one location. It may take two more years to bring in all the archived records from 56 field offices and other locations to Winchester and get all that information into bins for the robots to shelve.
