De La Rue Identity Systems opened am electronic passport research and production facility took place on Nov. 26. De La Rue has built the dedicated manufacturing plant on a brown-field site in the Republic of Malta. This new factory enables De La Rue to print and assemble both machine readable and biometric passports, as well […]

Cross Match Technologies, a developer of biometric products, has had their mobile handheld fingerprint reader, Be.U Mobile, approved through the Transportation and Security Administration’s evaluation of products to qualify for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential pilot program. Ports around the U.S. will use the list of products that pass the TSA evaluation for purchasing and […]

Neurotechnology, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced they have been selected by the Bangladesh Army to provide the country with its MegaMatcher software development kit, a multi-modal biometric technology, to help identify duplicate registrations in the voter registry. The SDK is to become part of the Bangladesh Voter Registration Project that has already registered […]

The General Services Administration, on behalf of the Defense Manpower Data Center has awarded Telos Corp. a five-year, $160 million contract to provide Common Access Card printer consumables and inventory management services to support the agency’s identity protection and management programs. Under the contract, Telos will provide color ribbon, retransfer film, laminate, and cleaning kits […]

Company has come a long way from seven guys wanting to make their own contactless chips INSIDE Contactless might never have seen the light of day had Gemplus 13-years ago accepted the suggestion of some of its engineers to begin producing its own chips. Gemplus, which later merged with Axalto to become the largest smart […]