UPI reports that Australia’s Defense Department will be testing an automated biometric information system that will aid in the production of biometrically enabled intelligence. The system has been developed by Northrop Grumman and is based on the U.S. Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System. Australia will conduct a six-month trial to test the system’s […]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) engaged HJP Consulting to run a seminar on the International Civil Aviation Organization Public Key Directory (PKD) for government authorities of the Republic of Albania. The seminar was conducted by Markus Hartmann, CEO, and Dirk Hartmann, senior consultant of HJP Consulting, Germany. HJP demonstrated the benefits […]

States have more than a couple of reasons to improve their driver license processes. In January the bell tolls for states to comply with the oft-delayed REAL ID Act with potentially severe consequences for states that don’t meet the standards. There has also been an influx of fake driver licenses and state IDs from China. […]

AOptix and Certis CISCO announced a partnership that will provide iris and face recognition solutions for biometric security systems in Singapore. AOptix will offer its iris recognition and face capture systems to customers using biometrics for identity verification in aviation security among other applications. Certis will bring its expertise with security solutions as well as […]

NEC Corporation of America has granted Michigan State University (MSU) with a gift to the school’s College of Engineering to fund biometric research. As reported by CBS Detroit, the gift will fund ongoing research on fingerprint matching and facial recognition. It will also help start new research in the school’s Pattern Recognition and Image Processing […]

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has added fingerprint recognition to its arsenal of tools to help identify suspects, reports WCTV. The office has invested about $144,000 in the Rapid ID system. This portable system identifies suspects by taking and reading their fingerprints. It then can immediately tell if the suspect has a criminal […]

The Romanian Police no longer have access to their extensive set of databases that help them recognize and identify fingerprints and faces due to poor maintenance of the systems, reports Romania Insider. The police use an Imagetrak database that contains many physical characteristics about registered suspects. For fingerprint recognition the police use AFIS 2000. The […]

The GUARDIAN RFID Corrections System, in partnership with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa, Fla., unveiled the RFID Arrestee Management System to accelerate the speed and accuracy with which arrestees are captured, identified and managed from the point of arrest to release. Law enforcement officers can outfit a suspect with an RFID wristband and […]

The FBI has invested $1 billion in a biometrics-based identification system to help catch criminals, reports ZD Net. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will improve the FBI’s existing fingerprint ID service. It also plans on including other biometric measures such as facial recognition, iris scanning, DNA analysis, voice identification and potentially also rolled and […]

Confidex announced that its RFID windshield labels are being used to support India’s modernizing of all border checkpoints as mandated by the government, with the first fully automatic border control system kicking off in Maharashtra, India. Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is in the process of modernizing the state’s border checkpoints utilizing passive ultra-high […]