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

USAF extends Shipcom contract

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Shipcom Wireless has announced an extension of its contract with the U.S. Air Force’s Surgeon General’s Office. The software provider’s contract involves a review of the current uses of RFID across the Air Force Medical Service.

Originally, the contract focused on a baseline assessment of clinical and business processes at the USAF’s Keesler Medical Center using Shipcom’s Hospital Operational & Clinical Assessment Model software, followed by recommendations on how the Air Force could best use RFID and related technologies to improve efficiency and patient care.


With the contract extension, Shipcom will also create and implement specific RFID solutions for the Keesler Medical Center using its x/Care suite of health care applications, including the patient care module and the asset management module.

Texas-based Shipcom Wireless was founded in 1997. The company provides integrated supply chain execution software solutions which focus on the RFID and enterprise mobility markets. [end] 

Cubic Transportation Systems has been awarded a $65 million deal, through its Australian division, to provide for passenger rail operations in Sydney.

The three-year contract includes expanded operations, maintenance of ticketing equipment, infrastructure and delivery of associated services by Cubic to RailCorp (Rail Corporation New South Wales). The contract includes provisions to be extended within two one-year options for services.

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The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) has awarded a 10-year contract to 3M Cogent to provide high-resolution LiveScan booking systems and biometric identification products, using tenprint and palm print scans in accordance with the HKPF’s ANSI/NIST standard.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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The Department of Defense’s Biometrics Identity Management Agency (BIMA) has exercised the second option year with modifications on the Ideal Innovations Inc. (I-3) Technology Management task order under the Biometrics Operations and Support Services – Unrestricted (BOSS-U) contract. The cumulative value of the contract is now $30.5 million.

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The U.S. government’s Advanced Analytic Capabilities Subgroup of the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) has awarded a research and development contract to voice biometrics technology provider Agnitio Corp. to speed up development and deliver an improved capabilities for voice biometrics-based mobile phone security.

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The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has awarded a two-year contract to Chicago-based Accurate Biometrics to perform its livescan and cardscan fingerprint collection and transmission services.

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