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Iron Bow Technologies nabs U.S. Air Force NETCENTS-2 product contract

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Iron Bow Technologies LLC has been awarded the Network Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) Products contract form the United States Air Force.  The major contract has an estimated value of $6.9 billion with a three-year base period of performance from the award date, and three additional one-year options. This contract allows the Air Force to acquire a wide range of standard, interoperable IT products including equipment, servers, software and biometric hardware with associated software. “Iron Bow is committed to providing innovative data center,

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IDGA’s Forensic Enabled Intelligence 2013

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Event Date:
April 22, 2013

Harnessing Physical and Digital Evidence Through Collaboration and Technology April 22-24, 2013 – Holiday Inn, Alexandria, VA IDGA’s Forensic Enabled Intelligence 2013 will take place just as the Defense Forensics Enterprise takes shape and procurement procedures shift from ad-hoc funding to budgeted expenses. FEI 2013 is a unique opportunity to gain first hand perspectives from those directly responsible for the direction of our future forensic efforts. Speakers from the Office of the Provost Marshal General of the Army, the Naval

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Kratos lands $4.3 million U.S. Marine Corps biometrics program contract

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Kratos has announced that its Defense Rocket Support Service division’s Technical Services business unit has won the contract to provide acquisition, financial, logistics, training, technical, program management and administrative support to the Program Manager United States Marine Corps Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Deivce (RCIED) Electronic Warfare (PM USMC CREW) Biometrics Programs. The contract, worth $4.3 million, encompasses PM USMC CREW Biometrics Programs, including the Biometrics Automated Toolset, the Identity Dominance System Marine Corps, the Biometrics Enrollment Screening Device, the Handheld

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IDGA announces Border Management Southwest conference, releases full conference agenda

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The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) has just announced its fourth-annual Border Management Southwest conference, set to take place May 29-31, 2013 in Tucson, Arizona. According to the event website, this year’s conference promises to bring together all relevant stakeholders to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Department of Homeland Security, from efforts to build new partnership to modernizing security capabilities. Policy makers, uniformed service leaders, law enforcement and industry partners will converge in Tucson to network,

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AOptix and CACI land $3 million research contract from DoD

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AOptix has just landed a research contract from the U.S Defence Department (DoD) to examine its Smart Mobile Identity biometrics identification package and to eventually provide the department with a smartphone solution for scanning someone’s eyes, face, thumbs and voice. The contract, first reported in Wired.com’s Danger Room, is worth $3 million and AOptix will be working with CACI International on the project, which said to entail a hardware peripheral and an accompanying app. According to the company, its Smart

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Apricorn launches biometric USB drive with AuthenTec fingerprint sensor

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Apricorn has announced the launch of the Aegis Bio 3.0, a biometric USB drive that safeguards data with an AuthenTec fingerprint sensor and military grade 265-bit AES-XTS hardware encryption. Available as either a hard drive or SSD, this device requires no special software to use. Everything you need is stored locally on the drive. Additionally, this drive is flexible in terms of where you want to access your files as it works independently of the host operating system, and requires

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U.S. Navy taps StereoVision for long-range facial recognition binoculars

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The United States Navy is looking to procure a set of binoculars capable of reading faces from up to 650 feet away for identification purposes. According to a January 16 contract announcement from the Department of the Navy, seeking a “Wireless 3D Binocular Face Recognition System,” the Navy is looking to aid stand-off identification of uncooperative subjects, and has awarded the contract to California-based StereoVision Imaging. “High level, it’s a surveillance and identification system,” Greg Steinthal, president of StereoVision told

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Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, former CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Director joins Cross Match

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Cross Match Technologies, Inc. has announced that Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, a founding member of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), has joined the company as vice president of business development – Americas. Prior to Cross Match, Nelson served as a senior fellow and director of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) public policy research institution. Nelson led policy analysis on a variety of critical national and homeland security issues at CSIS and

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SAIC lands $73 million contract from U.S. Army for tactical biometric collection

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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command – New Jersey to provide software engineering maintenance and management services in support of the Quick Reaction Capabilities (QRC) managed by the Joint Personnel Identification (PM JPI), which will provide the U.S. Military with a tactical biometric collection capability. According to the company, this contracted service will allow the military to capture biometric data and enroll it into the Department of Defense‘s

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Biometric Research Note: Mobile devices to drive bank adoption of voice biometrics

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Financial institutions have identified voice biometrics as one of the best means to secure its client accounts and financial information. Voice biometrics compares various characteristics drawn from a person’s voice such as inflection, pitch, dialect, among others, and matches that with data captured. For voice recognition to work it requires banks and other financial institutions to register their clients voice patterns and correlate them to personal data for incorporation into a database. Voice biometrics solutions allow customers to verify their

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