TrustGrid selected to provide decentralized digital identity to US Air Force
TrustGrid has won a contract with the United States Department of the Air Force (DAF) to deliver a decentralized digital…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
Pakistan launches bid process for 22M biometric national ID cards
Pakistan is running a tender to procure 22 million pre-personalized smart cards with fingerprint biometrics for its national digital ID…
US Navy to award sole source contract to IDEMIA NSS
The United States Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center-Pacific (NAVWAR-P) has announced that it intends to award a firm-fixed-price purchase order…
Ukraine’s digital ID app Diia continues to attract attention
In June, Ukraine became the first country to offer online marriage ceremonies, allowing Roman Lozynskyi and his fiancée Svitlana Kisilova…
Block to pitch W3C open standards in NIST digital ID consortium
Block has joined the consortium of players in the in the mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) to help encourage faster development…
Philippines central bank cancels digital ID card contract with ACI
The Philippines’ central bank has cancelled the contract to produce the country’s national digital ID cards, leading to an appeal…
Remote identity proofing for online Medicaid, public assistance applications a mixed bag
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) said this week that those states which have not implemented Remote Identity…
EUDI Wallet project seeks public feedback on technical specification
The European digital identity project is seeking feedback from the public on its technical specifications. The European Commission recently published…
Entrust selects Carahsoft as US public sector partner for biometrics, digital ID
Carahsoft and Entrust are joining forces to bring digital identity and zero-trust security solutions to aid in government digital transformation….
DHS outlines foreseeable biometric agenda, but will it have the funding?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has an ambitious biometric agenda going into Fiscal…
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