With the U.S. government turning into the biggest customer for smart card technology–thanks to a huge push from President Bush–the Smart Card Alliance’s fourth annual smart cards in government conference in Washington, D.C. is coming at an ideal time. Officially titled Smart Cards in eGovernment 2005, the session kicks off March 8 with a pre-conference […]

Wired News “The federal intelligence overhaul that became law last month while creating a new national intelligence director and beefing up border patrols also aims to close loopholes for identity fraud that some of the Sept. 11 terrorists used to get aboard the jets they hijacked. … Privacy advocates warn that the new federal standards […]

Litronic, a SAFLINK subsidiary, will be adding more security to its jForte smart card through Precise Biometrics’ Match-on-Card technology, which adds the capability to verify the identity of an individual without the biometric credentials ever leaving the card. SAFLINK announced that its subsidiary, Litronic, has licensed Precise Biometrics’ Match-on-Card(TM)(MoC) technology to add an additional security […]

Add Bioscrypt to the list of companies involved in the Transporation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) project. Prime contractor, BearingPoint, selected Bioscrypt’s fingerprint verification technology to identify workers in the ongoing trial phase of the TWIC program. Other biometric providers-including SAFLINK and Daon-are also involved in the TWIC trial phase project. US Department of Homeland Security […]

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access. “We’ve gone thru an evolution over the last couple years,” said Tom Doggett, SAFLINK’s […]

The 599th Transportation Group under the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command was designated by the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) today to serve as the single port manager to offload critical supplies supporting tsunami relief efforts in Thailand. The 599th will oversee all operations at the Port of Laem Chabang as six ships from the […]

< ? $key="5544"; ?> The editors of SecureIDNews asked a group of the identity industry’s key players to tell us what they see in store for the coming year. Our ‘Expert Panel’ was comprised of leaders from some of the most important companies shaping the future of secure ID. Each and every reader from around […]

The application of identity management, credentialing, and authentication solutions impacts all aspects of modern life. Our expert panel touched on a variety of applications as they peered into the future – government ID, corporate ID, payment, and consumer utilizations. Ben Miller sees significant growth, consolidation in large scale ID for ‘05 by Ben Miller, Industry […]

A major theme in secure ID technology for 2005 seems to be that standards have matured and implementation is ready to take off in a big way. Our panelists provide a range of insight with a focus on both the reader and the card. Reader advancements to drive smart card growth in ‘05 by Peter […]

ContactlessNews is a part of a suite of ID technology publications from AVISIAN Inc. Other publications from the family, CR80News (covering campus and closed system ID technology) and SecureIDNews (covering government and enterprise use of secure ID technologies) also ran expert panel submissions during December. Here are a sampling of those likely to interest our […]