IBG awarded research contracts from DRDC
23 June, 2010
category: Biometrics, Government
International Biometric Group (IBG) announced that it has been awarded two research awards by the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) for their Public Security Technical Program. The research awards stipulate that IBG work within a consortium that also includes other Canadian government entities as well as select experts from academia and the biometrics industry to look at various biometric technologies that can be utilized for national security in the country.
Among the two research awards, the first deals with evaluation of the links between security levels and system performance in biometric systems designed to protect electronic information for Canada. The second deals with safeguarding databases and tasks the group with evaluating topics such as countermeasures, privacy, revocable biometrics, data sharing, covert use and multi-use biometrics.