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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.

 

Disclosures show crowd-scanning facial recognition system tested by U.S.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning facial recognition system last year, called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS), following…

 

Kosovo contracts Giesecke+Devrient for biometric smart ID cards

Giesecke & Devrient will manufacture Kosovo’s new smart ID cards, which will contain biometric data and support ICAO and EU standards….

 

Viscount Systems shows increased revenue, net loss decline in Q2 2013

Viscount Systems has just announced the results for its second quarter 2013, and has shown both an increase in revenue and…

 

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”…

 

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….

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