LaserCard Corp. received an order to supply additional credentials for Italy’s Citizen ID Card program, known as the Carta d’Identità Elettronica or CIE. The multi-technology ID cards, based on LaserCard’s optical security media platform, are used by citizens for identification and travel. The order is valued at approximately $540,000 and is expected to be delivered […]

By Steve Howard, vice president of credentials, CertiPath It took the U.S. Federal Government more than six years to get behind FIPS 201 and figure out how to make it real – but it’s finally here. The market is seeing millions of PIV cards and there’s a whole lot to get excited about. The overarching […]

Digital Identification Solutions AG has received notification from the U.S. General Services Administration that its two recent submissions to the FIPS 201 product list have been approved.

 The two new products are the EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer ID Card Printer and ILM-DS combined system, and the EDIsecure DCP 360+ Direct ID Card Printer and ILM […]

Royal Oman Police, in its role as passport issuing authority of the Sultanate of Oman, awarded HJP Consulting (HJP) with a consulting contract for the new Omani e-passport project. This is HJP’s fourth electronic ID consultancy contract in the Middle East region. The scope of the project is to support Royal Oman Police in the […]

ImageWare Systems has announced that it has been awarded a contract to perform an expansion of an existing border management system it initially installed for an unnamed country. The contract, which is valued at $37 million, is expected to start January 2011 and last for roughly a year and a half. The border management system […]

IdentiSys Inc., a sales and service integrator of identification, card issuance, emergency response, and access control security systems, announced the acquisition of Inland Business Products Inc., based in Spokane Valley, Wash. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Inland Business Products is a provider of photo identification, mailing, bar code technology, embossing and card issuance […]

By Walter Hamilton, chairman and president, International Biometrics & Identification Association Biometric technology continues to evolve and is gaining increasing importance as a trusted method of personal identification in a wide range of applications deployed throughout the world. Biometrics is the automatic identification or identity verification of an individual based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. […]

In just six months more than 300,000 Republic of China citizens have applied for their first passports in person, with the new biometric passports contributing to Taiwan’s inclusion as a candidate for the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP), according to The China Post. In addition, a total of 3.88 million Taiwan passport holders have changed […]

RNCOS has released a new report predicting that the worldwide shipment of secure microprocessor contactless smart cards will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24% from 2011 to 2013. According to RNCOS, the increasing application of smart cards in various industrial sectors, including mobile payments, transportation and ID, coupled with rising awareness […]

At the Smart Card Alliance’s Smart Cards in Government conference AVISIAN asked industry officials what they thought would be coming in 2011. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, emerging use of mobile devices, securing electronic health records and additional use of PIV credentials are just a sample of what will be coming next […]