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News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.

 

Zetes gets contract for The Gambian biometric passport and border control eGate

Zetes has announced that it has just been awarded a fifteen-year contract to create biometric passports for The Gambia. According to…

 

HP wins DHS contract to upgrade employee identification cards

HP has won a significant contract to upgrade the Department of Homeland Security’s employee identification cards. Reported in Nextgov, the…

 

MorphoTrust USA transitions TWIC to Universal Enrollment Services

MorphoTrust USA has announced that it has achieved Final Operational Capability for transition of the TSA’s TWIC enrollment operations to the TSA’s…

 

Gemalto, Zetes to provide Belgian ePassports

Gemalto has announced that it will supply Belgium with an ePassport, set to be introduced in 2014. Specifically, Gemalto will provide…

 

Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, or…

 

iBeta gets new scope expansion from NVLA for biometric data interchange

iBeta Quality Assurance has received two new scope expansions to its current accreditations from National voluntary Accreditation Program. Specifically, iBeta can…

 

ImageWare gets contract in support of federal iris pilot test

ImageWare Systems is set to support a pilot program for a U.S. federal agency to implement iris recognition throughout 20 state…

 

Biometric Consortium Conference and the changing organization of pure-play

This week, the biometrics community met in Tampa for the Biometric Consortium Conference and it’s clear that change is afoot…

 

MorphoTrust USA gets Frost & Sullivan award for North American Company of the Year for Government Biometrics

MorphoTrust USA has been awarded the 2013 North American Company of the Year for Government Biometrics by Frost & Sullivan. According…

 

Aware announces US Navy mobile biometrics deployment

Aware has announced that the US Navy has just deployed a mobile biometric solution from the company as a part of…

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