US Navy to discuss body-worn biometric capable system at industry day event
The U.S. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific will hold an…
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Militaries around the world use biometrics for secure access control to facilities, equipment, and IT systems, and to identify adversaries in the field.
US Air Force to make award to Trusted Systems for SIPRGuard
The U.S. Air Force 6th Contracting Squadron (6 CONS) at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, issued a justification for a…
US Marine Corps issues RFI for observation and sensing tech
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is looking for commercially available technologies that can detect and identify both personnel and unknown…
US Army moves closer to fielding next-gen biometrics collection
The U.S. Army recently completed field tests of its $28.3 million Next Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC) hardware and software…
USSOCOM’s brave new exploitation of the bad guys’ biometrics
The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) may soon enter into a long-term contractual agreement with an unidentified academic institution near…
US Army base tests facial recognition, AI for threat detection, perimeter monitoring
The U.S. Army is testing a commercial, off-the-shelf AI security system at its Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky….
Wars prompt questions for facial recognition providers, and obscure the answers
The fog of war is obscuring details about a pair of contracts involving facial recognition developers; one Russian, one Israeli….
In a military context, bias in AI reflects the decisions of its makers
According to Ingvild Bode, associate professor at the Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, the artificial…
$50M venture fund raised for facial recognition, digital tools in Israel
Executives at an unmanned systems company in Israel say they have created a $50 million corporate venture capital fund to…
Megvii, Yitu among companies slapped with fresh U.S. sanctions
Washington has added more names to a list of Chinese firms that could be supporting Beijing’s military-industrial complex, including facial…
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