Digital Identification Solutions, a provider of ID card and high-security identification solutions, announced that South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has ordered additional EDIsecure XID590ie retransfer printers to complete the implementation of 125 units in all 46 counties to produce the state drivers licenses and identification cards. South Carolina is utilizing the EDIsecure solution in […]

At the Biometrics Show in Great Britain, Cross Match will introduce the Verifier 320 LC, its new fingerprint scanner that’s being touted as being the fastest, lightest and smallest dual-finger scanner. The dual finger scanner has two advanced capabilities over standard fingerprint scanners as it has enhanced security as well is able to enroll a […]

Smartware will present at Cartes 2008 its Virtual-ePassport, a program designed to test border control systems. The Smartware system will simulate the behavior of contactless smart card chips and the electronic passports Logical Data Structure. The Virtual-ePassport includes an ICAO PKI module, enabling testers to dynamically signs e-passport content. All existing e-Passport cryptographic schemes including […]

Intelli-Check – Mobilisa Inc. announced that their IM2700 Transportation Worker Identification Credential Handheld Reader completed the Department of Homeland Security’s Initial Capability Evaluation scenarios demonstration. With the completion, the IM2700 has been placed on the DHS’s published product list. The nation’s ports will use this published reference list to select products for evaluation and use […]

SAFRAN through Sagem Securite, its wholly owned subsidiary announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the biometric business unit within Motorola Inc., which includes its Printrak trademark. Motorola and SAFRAN have approved the acquisition. Motorola’s biometric business unit, headquartered in Anaheim, Calif., designs, develops, integrates and maintains AFIS solutions for law […]

L-1 Identity Solutions, a developer of identity and biometric technology, has received a contract worth $20 million for a number of pieces of hardware, software and services from an undisclosed middle East client. The contract involves system for enrolling, managing and searching multi-modal biometrics using the clients existing databases as well as more than 1,000 […]

The Smart Card Alliance has released a white paper detailing best practices for issuing first responder credentials. “Emergency Response Official Credentials: An Approach to Attain Trust in Credentials across Multiple Jurisdictions for Disaster Response and Recovery” is designed to identify best practices and defines use cases for credentials based on the FIPS 201 standard, and […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reached an agreement with the state of Michigan to issue enhanced driver licesenses. Washington and New York are already issuing the documents that are acceptable alternative document for crossing the United States’ land and sea borders. The new documents are called for under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which […]