I3 to provide latent fingerprint support services to FBI bomb analysis center
Ideal Innovations announced today that it was recently awarded a contract supporting the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Explosive Device…
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U.S. government planning three new biometrics contracts
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is progressing toward the replacing its legacy IDENT biometric system with the new Homeland…
Indian Railway increases scope and tries again with tender for facial recognition network
The Indian Railway’s telecom arm RailTel has re-floated a tender for a CCTV network with biometric facial recognition after the…
Digital ID in Africa this week: banks issuing biometric ID, tracking miners and a Global Fund tender
The application of biometrics continues apace across Africa. Biometric-backed ID is to begin for workers in Uganda’s informal mining sector….
UK Home Office reviewing bids for biometric system management contract worth up to £300M
The UK Home Office is weighing supplier bids for a contract worth up to £300 million (US$388 million) for a…
Booz Allen wins contract to develop mobile biometric hardware for DoD
Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a potential five-year, $36.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a hand-held biometric…
City in Mexico issues tender for smart lamppost project
The City of Puebla in east-central Mexico has published a call for tenders to install a public lighting system with…
DHS seeks reach-back tech for fielded rapid DNA systems; ICAM on-the-fly
To enhance its multimodal biometric collection for enhanced border security and the prevention of human trafficking and smuggling, the Department…
FEMA seeks better way to identify disaster survivors
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is searching for a better way to verify the identity of disaster survivors…
Bulgaria issues tender for biometric ID system
Bulgaria’s interior ministry has opened a €121.8 million (US$139.1 million) tender for developing a system for issuing biometric identity documents,…
