Semiconductor company NXP is supplying an Indonesian company with SmartMX chips for the country’s contactless Overseas Worker’s Identification Card, which complements a passport to provide secure access to government services and banking. Jakarta–NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced that it supplies SmartMX chips to Pura Smart Technology, the smartcard manufacturing division of […]

The American Association of Airport Executives’ (AAAE) Transportation Security Clearinghouse (TSC), the largest civilian clearinghouse in the nation, recently surpassed the 3 million mark for facilitating biometrically based background checks for aviation workers. The TSC is a non-profit arm of AAAE and operates in cooperation with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to complete criminal history […]

Under an agreement signed February 6, West Virginia University (WVU) is the FBI’s lead academic partner in biometrics research. WVU’s role is to provide biometrics research support to the FBI and its law enforcement and national security partners and serve as the FBI liaison to the academic community of biometric researchers nationwide. The FBI Biometric […]

The Fairfax County (Va.) Police Department (FCPD) has begun using the DSV2+TURBO® from Datastrip Inc. The handheld biometric terminal has a fingerprint scanner and card reader, and can also take photos on the scene. The units were loaded with custom software to seamlessly interface with FCPD’s Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) and to perform facial […]

President Bush is asking for $390.3 million to fund the US VISIT program for the 2009 fiscal year. Other biometric and identification programs, including Real ID and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, were also highlighted in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s budget-in-brief. Tracking spending on biometric and security initiatives for the next fiscal year […]

Hirsch Electronics, Santa Ana, Calif., announced that its Verification Station’s biometric technology passed the Transportation Security Administration’s testing and was placed on the agency’s Qualified Products List. The Verification Station delivers four authentication factors: card, code, fingerprint and PKI certificate check. It also enables four applications: verify claimed identities, control access, encode smart cards, and […]

ImageWare® Systems launches IWS™ Mediator™, a suite of multilingual translation, collaborative and integrated multimodal biometric capabilities for government, defense, border control, public safety and enterprise-wide organizations. ImageWare’s agnostic IWS Mediator platform enables real-time multilingual translation, including two-way, speech-to-speech, voice analysis, and multimodal biometric capabilities. Users can communicate with subjects in their own language while allowing […]

Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) will supply Interpol and its 186 member states with the latest version of its automated fingerprint identification system, MetaMorpho™. In addition to automated processing, this system features the latest algorithms developed by Sagem Sécurité, as well as fingerprint acquisition and transmission software in full compliance with international standards. The latest version […]

Transportation Security Administration creates Qualified Products List to approve products By Jennifer Slattery, Contributing Editor The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was directed by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to develop standards for use of biometric technology in airport access control systems. The goal of this effort is to establish procedures for […]

Cross Match Technologies, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., announced the acquisition of Canada-based Labcal. Both companies are privately held and terms of the deal were not disclosed. Labcal specializes in ruggedized, handheld mobile computing systems that integrate biometrics, smart card technologies, wireless communications and application software for authenticating people and documents. Cross Match provides fingerprint scanner […]