DHS develops biometric tools to improve traveler identity verification
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has developed two biometric identity technologies designed to improve…
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ICE smart glasses plan points to broader DHS push to make biometrics mobile and routine
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving toward a broader biometric enforcement architecture that would extend facial recognition and…
Smart glasses and the new DHS surveillance budget
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget justification lays out an expansive biometric and identity tech…
Aware active and passive liveness tested in RIVR’s biometric PAD track
Aware is encouraged by its results in the face biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) track of the U.S. Department of…
Identy biometric PAD, Incode and Microblink document validation among RIVR winners
Identy.io, Incode and Microblink are claiming success in DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T’s) Remote Identity Verification Rally (RIVR), carried…
RIVR results show biometric liveness detection effectiveness highly variable
The state of the art in biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) is better than document validation, but far worse than…
DHS RIVR results suggest most ID document validation disastrously ineffective
The results of the identity document validation track within the 2025 Remote Identity Validation Rally are sobering. They indicate that…
John Howard reflects on DHS biometrics evaluations and the AI testing landscape
When John Howard began working for SAIC at the Maryland Test Facility, biometrics was an emerging technology supported by a…
RIVR results show targeted selfie biometric spoof attacks divide the field
Test results from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) suggest significant differences in the performance…
DHS science office signals continued investment in biometrics and identity systems
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking industry input on scientific and technical support…
