9 Facts About FBI Director

1. In June 2016, the FBI Director awarded Glock a contract for new handguns.

2. In March 2005, the FBI Director announced it was beginning a new, more ambitious software project, code-named Sentinel, which they expected to complete by 2009.

3. In 2000, the FBI Director began the Trilogy project to upgrade its outdated information technology infrastructure.

4. The FBI Director maintains over 400 resident agencies across the United States, as well as over 50 legal attaches at United States embassies and consulates.

5. The FBI Director shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement Administration in the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

6. In 2003, a congressional committee called the FBI Director's organized crime informant program "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement.

7. The FBI Director is in charge of staffing the leadership in any one of the FBI field offices with qualified agents.

8. The FBI Director is an agency within the Department of Justice, and thus the Director reports to the Attorney General of the United States.

9. The FBI Director is appointed for a single 10-year term by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.