21 May, 2008
category: Biometrics, Government
LaserCard Corp. announced a follow-on purchase order valued at $2.9 million to supply secure identity cards for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s national ID program. This brings the total orders received for this program to $4.7 million since April 1.
The $2.9 million order calls for the continued supply of optical smart cards to be issued via approximately 40 issuance offices in cities throughout Saudi Arabia. Since the inception of the Saudi National ID Card project in 2003, LaserCard has supplied approximately $16 million of cards, software, hardware and services for the program.