System demonstrations available in D.C.-area March 2-6 AOptix Technologies Inc. will roll out its first iris-at-a-distance product next week in Washington. The Campbell, Calif.-based company is holding an open house in Crystal City, Va. to demonstrate the product to system integrators, consultants, end users and the media. AOptix is a Silicon Valley startup founded by […]

Vangent, a developer of biometric tools and systems, has won a $68 million, three year contract from the Mexican Social Security agency (IMSS) to develope and operate a biometric system for identity management. The system will be managed by Vangent’s Mexican counterpart, Vangent Mexico. The contract stipulates that 700 enrollment centers will be created to […]

Biometrics researcher, Marios Savvides of Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab, has been chosen as one of four researchers to join the new Center for Academic Studies in Identity Sciences (CASIS). CASIS will be working to provide the biometric community with solutions to top security and identity issues. Some of the work Savvides had been involved in […]

The Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association spent $40,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby Congress on using biometric technology for airport security, according to a news report from the Associated Press. The union said it lobbied on a bill that would have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to study how airports could use fingerprints and […]

Daon, a developer of identity assurance software, has announced that they have provided their software and services to the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). The system that has been installed, which consists of Daon’s infrastructure software DaonEngine as well as various biometric scanners, is a multimodal solution utilizing fingerprints, iris patterns and facial recognition. According […]

Inspection systems and extended access control are next hurdles By Zack Martin, Editor More than 100 million electronic passports have been issued in the two plus years since governments initiated production of the new travel credentials. The U.S. State Department alone has issued almost 15 million of the contactless documents. But while there are many […]

By Catherine J. Tilton, Vice President, Standards and Emerging Technology, Daon Despite recent financial downturns, government biometrics projects continue to move forward, albeit with typical government delays, but that is nothing new. And while biometric companies come and go and merge, are they mainstream yet? We now see biometrics offered in consumer products such as […]

Entrust Inc. has been selected to supply the certificate authority software for Finland’s migration to second-generation electronic passports based on the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard. With the European Union’s June 2009 deadline for migration to the EAC standard on the horizon, Finland’s Population Register Centre expects the transition to the new EAC e-passport Certificate […]

Health care technology provider Mobile Aspects Inc. has announced its certification under the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Standard. Pittsburgh-based Mobile Aspects provides of RFID-enabled clinical resource management solutions, many of them based on the company’s flagship tracking architecture, the Intelligent Radio Frequency Inventory System (iRIS). ISO 9001:2000 is an international Quality Management System standard developed by […]