The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a contract to Massachusetts-based MorphoTrust to maintain ABIS, its central biometrics platform. The contract is worth $3.6 million a year, with four one-year options, for a total of $17.8 million. The Defense Department has licensed MorphoTrust’s ABIS platform for multi-modal biometrics since 2010. It uses the system for fingerprint, […]

Fulcrum Biometrics has partnered with IriTech in a reseller agreement to offer IriTech’s IriShield iris recognition scanner systems online. IriShield is an ISO-compliant iris scanner system that’s designed for applications such as access control, time and attendance, POS, voter registration, census applications and mobile banking. NIST has given its algorithms high rankings in its IREX […]

Wanting to explore the possibility of recording and validating facial or iris biometrics with a smart phone from a distance, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $3 million research contract to AOptix. As reported by Wired, the California-based technology firm will be looking at what’s called “Smart Mobile Identity” biometrics identification. The two-year […]

A Companies & Markets report reveals that the global multi-factor authentication market will reach $5.45 billion by 2017. The report also estimates an estimated compound annual growth rate of 17.3% from 2012 to 2017. Two-factor authentication is most commonly used multi-factor authentication model in the world with smartcard/PIN and one-time password making up the top […]

Global Industry Analysts predicts that the global market for iris biometrics will reach $1.5 billion by 2018, with technology advances and expanding application areas driving that growth. In its new report “Iris Biometrics: A Global Strategic Business Report,” GIA has found that this form of biometric recognition is starting to see a lot of growth […]

India’s Home Ministry has proposed issuing smart biometric resident ID cards through its National Population Register (NPR), a move which some say is duplicating the fforst of the UIDAI program. As reported by The Economic Times, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is putting together a group of ministers to explore whether or not these programs duplicate […]

In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Robert A. Pastor makes a case for the implementation of biometric voter IDs in America because they can help solve problems with voter fraud and migration. While more than 30 states already require voters to have identification cards, they haven’t always been used because many state courts […]

By Joseph Pritikin, Director of product marketing, AOptix It may be two years, it may be ten, but soon enough the identity credential will look very much like Facebook, YouTube, or Amazon: It will be an app or functionality embedded within an app on your smart mobile device. While the identity credential will be enabled […]

Biometric technology has been around for more than a century, with its earliest and most common uses centered in law enforcement. In the past decades, application of the technology has extended to the identification and authentication of individuals at border crossings, onto computer networks and into physical spaces. The triumvirate–finger, face and iris–remain the top […]

In the past year, iris leader AOptix processed more than 5 million passengers through aviation security and immigration environments. The company expects to scale to 50 million per year in the next 18 months. It is changing the way people travel, the way airports manage their footprints and the way immigration authorities manage biometrics at […]