Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Boeing awards ImageWare Systems new biometric contract

Thursday, March 6, 2008

ImageWare® Systems, headquartered in San Diego, California received a one-year, multiple award initial task order contract valued in excess of $100,000 from Boeing Integrated Defense Systems unit. ImageWare will support Boeing customers and help drive awareness of systems capabilities and solutions. In addition, ImageWare will integrate its IWS™ Mediator™ solutions, including two-way speech to speech and multilingual chat, into Boeing’s open architecture program environments, which include its Command and Control Middleware and Information Assurance applications. [end] 

Accurate Biometric announced it has been awarded a contract from the FBI for its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).

The contract is a significant one for Accurate as it enables them to offer same-day FBI fingerprint submission services for criminal background checks to clients such as housing authorities, Indian reservations and banks.

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Raptor Identification Systems unveiled two new mobile biometric devices. The two new solutions, called RaptorONE-TM and RaptorPAD-TM, both run on the Android Mobile Operating System with one being powered by a smart phone and the other a tablet.

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ImageWare Systems has announced that it has been awarded a contract to perform an expansion of an existing border management system it initially installed for an unnamed country.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to add biometric modalities and other enhancements to the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT uses digital fingerprints and photographs. A pilot program included in the contract will test facial and iris voluntary identification enrollment and matching.

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ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

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Fulcrum Biometrics has been given two separate awards for innovation at the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group’s Innovation Awards in Chicago at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference.

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