U.S. government spending on big data to grow exponentially
Biometrics Research Group, Inc. has observed that national security and military applications are driving a large proportion of “Big Data”…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
UK Borders too busy for fingerprinting: Immigration minister
Responding to heavy criticisms by the UK’s chief inspector of borders and immigration, the minister in charge of immigration, Mark…
Cameroon rolls out biometric passport
Cameroon has just started to issue its new biometric passport. Reported in Business in Cameroon, the first biometric passport was…
ImageWare lands $2.2M expansion to U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs identity management contract
ImageWare Systems has been awarded a $2.2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, to expand its personal identity verification…
MorphoTrak launches mobile gateway for RISC, AFIS interfacing
MorphoTrak USA has just launched the Morpho Mobile Gateway, which allows multiple mobile biometric devices to interface with the FBI’s Repository…
Morpho gets ten-year extension for Albanian project
Morpho has announced that it has been selected to continue providing its identity document management services in Albania, under a new…
Giesecke+Devrient to produce Mexican voter ID cards
Giesecke & Devrient is set to supply Mexico with new voter identification cards – 60 million of them, to be exact….
Solomon Islands gets biometric voter registration kits from ESI
Electoral Services International (ESI), a Canadian firm, will be responsible for the electronic biometric voter registration for the upcoming 2014 Parliamentary…
AOptix launches Stratus Client SDK for iOS
AOptix has just made its AOptix Stratus Client SDK available for iOS development. The stratus is the first comprehensive mobile identity…
South Korean Immigration project turns to Lumidigm for fingerprint readers
Lumidigm has just announced that its technology is now being used as a part of the Republic of Korea’s immigration clearance…
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