Cogent Systems have been awarded an initial $11 million contract from the Spanish Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of the Police and Civil Guardfor a national criminal automated fingerprint and palmprint identification system. The new system will be used by law enforcement officials for the Spanish National Police and Spanish Civil Guard and will integrate […]

ABI’s latest batchof good news for the RFID industry is to the tune of $8.4 billion – that’s the amount the market research firm exects worldwide markets to reach in 2012. Starting from a base of more than $3.8 billion in revenue in 2007 is a a 24 percent growth over 2006, and the curve […]

Seventy million voter ID cards in just eight weeks? Those bragging rights belong to the Nigerian government and project integrator Chams Nigeria, which had a lot of help from 700 Datacard printers. Datacard, which assisted in staff training,was also the recent recipient of the “Best Business Partner” award issued by Chams Nigeria at its 2007 […]

Gemalto will provide the world’s first clear window security feature on drivers licenses for Swedish drivers. The Gemalto Sealys Clear Window is a transparent window in the pure polycarbonate structure for enhanced physical security that matches stringent expectations from criminal laboratory and national road authority of Sweden. About 600,000 licenses will be produced per year […]

StepNexus’ MULTOS will be the first chip operating system supported on Texas Instruments’ RF360 smart IC platform, which, TI says, will enable system integrators and government ID providers of electronic passports to begin creating solutions on TI’s RF360 product. TI chose the StepNexus open-standard OS due to its proven security and global prevalence in smart […]

The Transportation Security Authority (TSA) announced five locations for testing the biometric piece of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. TSA announced that Watermark Cruises in Annapolis, Md., and the ports of Los Angeles; Long Beach, Calif.; New York and New Jersey; and Brownsville, Texas, will begin using card readers to evaluate the operational […]

Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology has been chosen by Texas Instruments (TI) to deliver enhanced security as part of the TI RF360 next-generation, smart integrated circuit (IC) platform for government-issued electronic identification (e-ID) documents. Implementing Certicom’s ECC technology, TI can ensure long-term compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP800-78 key […]

Mobilisa’s Defense ID, a handheld scanner that checks an ID card presented at any point of entry, is being utilized by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to secure access points. The scanned information is compared to more than 100 databases of individuals who are wanted for criminal offenses or are otherwise barred from military […]

Secure Services Corp. (SSC) has integrated their Secure Health and Privacy Environment (SHAPE) Smart Token® Constructive Key Management (CKM) cards with Intercede’s MyID smart card and identity credential management platform. Features of SSC’s SHAPE Smart Token® CKM card include: the card holder controls who has access to specified information and their fingerprint is converted to […]

With the introduction of the V-Station (Optical), Bioscrypt has added SecuGen’s optical sensor technology to its line of readers for physical access control with a 500 DPI optical sensor. Bioscrypt’s patented fingerprint pattern matching algorithm and supporting firmware are the foundation for the identity verification performance of the new reader. The V-Station (Optical) can be […]