Laboratory Services

Using cutting-edge science to solve cases and prevent acts of crime and terror.

That’s what the FBI Laboratory has been about since 1932, when our first crime lab was born. Today, it’s a full-service operation, with some 500 scientific experts and special agents working in a state-of-the-art facility in rural Virginia, traveling the world over on assignment and providing forensic exams, technical support, expert witness testimony, and advanced training to Bureau personnel and partners around the globe. Whether it’s peering into the nucleus of a cell to determine guilt or innocence…analyzing the spatter of blood at a crime scene…or linking exploded bomb fragments to terrorists, the men and women of the FBI Laboratory are dedicated to using the rigors of science to protect and defend
the nation.

Explore Our Services

Forensic Analysis
- Cryptanalysis & Racketeering
- Latent Print
- Questioned Documents

Operational Response
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological, & Nuclear Sciences
- Explosives
- Evidence Response Team
- Hazardous Material Response
- Photographic & Imaging

More About Us
- Laboratory Annual Report
- Forensic Services Handbook (pdf)
- Forensic Science Communication
- Scientific Working Groups
- News and Features
- Laboratory Positions

Evidence Control
- Evidence Control

Scientific Analysis
- Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
- Chemistry
- DNA-Nuclear
- DNA-Mitochondrial
- Trace Evidence
- Firearms/Toolmarks

Forensic Science
- Counterterrorism & Forensic Science Research
- Forensic Science Support
- Crime Scene Survey
- Forensic Facial Imaging

Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC)

Training

Building Scientific Skills

Inside the ‘Body Farm’ Follow our evidence experts as they get hands-on training on the science of human decomposition. Details

Operational Capabilities

	Technology on Display See some of the sophisticated equipment we use in our cases and operations—from small robots to large mobile vehicles. Details