Daon, a Reston, Va.-based identity software vendor, released DaonEngine Version 4.0. The latest version of the company’s software provides new capabilities and additional functionality which enables Daon partners to deliver flexible and secure identity solutions more quickly.

The new version extends Daon’s support for Service Oriented Architectures, enabling customers to offer biometric identity services to applications internal or external to the enterprise. DaonEngine 4.0 also offers enhanced fusion and normalization support, asynchronous operations, NIST processing, systems monitoring support as well as Java Message Service support.

The company also announced that it has been awarded a contract by a U.S. government agency to license DaonEngine 4.0, but the company declined to release the name.