The Vatican and Big Tech, Pentagon release overlapping AI commandments
It is hard to know what it means when a global religious figure, two iconic technology giants and the Pentagon…
Military Applications
Militaries around the world use biometrics for secure access control to facilities, equipment, and IT systems, and to identify adversaries in the field.
Army modernizes 20-year-old biometrics database for troops patrolling foreign checkpoints
The U.S. Army has developed an update to an important 20-year-old biometric data store, known as the BAT-A database and…
Army researchers attempt to match an infrared face biometrics against visible-light faces
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) are experimenting with artificial intelligence and facial recognition to positively identify an…
Defense Department wants to perform real-time biometric identification through walls
The U.S. Army is looking for products and technologies that enable soldiers to see through walls, floors and ceilings to…
Army issues SIPRGuard biometric desktop access control RFI
A Sources Sought/Request for Information (RFI) was issued this past week “for potential vendors that can provide … a SIPRGuard…
U.S. Navy bans TikTok, Pentagon fears DNA home kits jeopardize national security
Privacy and national security concerns have led the U.S. Navy to ban the use of social media app TikTok on…
InCadence wins $20M biometrics system support contract with U.S. Army
InCadence has secured a $20 million task order for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Near Real Time Identity Operations (NRTIO),…
U.S. Navy to save millions in paper costs with biometric signatures for recruitment forms
The U.S. Navy has begun using fingerprint biometrics to fill out the form of new recruits to the service, and…
Turkey adds autonomous facial recognition kamikaze drones to military portfolio
A major player in the engineering and defense industries, Turkish defense contractor Defense Technologies Engineering and Trade Inc. (STM) is…
USSOCOM set to test, evaluate commercial next generation biometrics
The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) earlier this month issued a Request for Information (RFI) “to gain knowledge of potential…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection