Dubai’s Naturalisation and Residency Administration has announced the implementation of four surveillance units outfitted with face recognition technology to be installed at the Dubai International Airport, according to a Business 24-7 article. The new system will be integrated into the United Arab Emirates Community Protection Face Recognition System and will use scanned data of travelers […]

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 […]

As part of the Computer Controlled Methadone Dispensing System (CCMDS) being implemented in most jails in the UK, prisoners are having their iris or fingerprint biometrics taken, according to a Guardian article. The purpose of the CCMDS is to relieve the problems in UK jails related to drug overdoses and drug trading by ensuring via […]

Cogent Systems, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the release of a new biometric device designed to be a rugged, multi-modal solution for use in the field by military and law enforcement personnel. The Fusion, Cogent’s new device, was design with input from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Special operations community and has been […]

Sarnoff Corporation, a developer of iris imaging technology, will be demonstrating two new iris capture technologies at the Biometrics Consortium in Tampa, Fla. later this month. The two systems, called Drive-Through and Compact, are both designed to read the iris of a moving user from a distance without requiring them to stop and stare into […]

Retica Systems, a developer of iris-based biometric technology, has announced their contract with the U.S. Army for design, development, testing and evaluation of the company’s iris technology for identifying threats from a distance called Eagle-Eyes. As the need for identifying wanted individuals from a distance has become increasingly important and increasingly hard to pull-off, Retica […]

Slovenia is going to deploy extended access control with its second generation electronic passport. Entrust Inc. will work with the country to implement the new security in the travel document. Slovenia’s second-generation e-passport, which will be integrated by technology partner S&T, represent a components of the country’s citizen-centric e-government. Their e-government services enable secure time-stamping […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. has received more than $9 million in task orders from multiple customers for 1,460 PIER and PIER-T iris enrollment and recognition devices, 535 HIIDE Expansion Module Jumpkits and more than 10,000 batteries for biometric devices. The company expects to begin shipments in the third quarter of 2008. The names of the […]

As fears of a new Sunni insurgency erupting in Iraq are rising, the U.S. military is turning towards a database of biometric information including fingerprints and iris scans to assist them in restricting excess movement throughout Iraq, according to a Wired article. The military has been compiling biometric data on Iraqi citizens for a while, […]