L-1 Identity Solutions has received two orders from the U.S. Military for its PIER portable iris recognition and enrollment devices totaling over $2.5 million. The PIER devices will be used in conjunction with the Military’s Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) system to identify and track persons of interest using multi-modal biometrics. The PIER 2.3 and PIER-T […]

CoreStreet’s PIVMAN System was recently used as an integral part of the July 19 Summer Breeze First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) usage demonstration co-hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC) and Department of Defense (DoD) Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA). The demonstration […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected ImageWare Systems to provide the VA with large-scale, agencywide biometric identity management capabilities and enable the agency to produce Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials in support of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). This deployment is considered one of the largest to date. U.S. Department of […]

BlueStar is now a distributor of the new Datamax H-Class heavy-duty RFID-compatible printers, which feature state-of-the-art modular design for quick and easy servicing of key components. The verdict: maximizing up-time while reducing the total cost of ownership. “BlueStar is elated to carry the new Datamax H-Class printer series, which is sophisticated enough to support high-resolution […]

By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor On May 24, 1844, the message, “What hath God wrought!” was sent by telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland, to our nation’s Capitol in Washington, DC. A new era in long-distance communications had begun. By the 1860s, the telegraph revolution was in full swing, and telegraph operators had become a valuable resource. […]

We here at RFIDNews hear about new RFID products constantly (like, at least twice a day). So we decided to ask Impinj’s Mendy Ouzillou, product line director of RFID reader products, a couple of questions about the company’s new GrandPrix RFID kit: Q: Why are kits like GrandPrix so necessary? Are companies perplexed about how […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Every time you turn around you see an NFC pilot program cropping up somewhere in the world. What you haven’t seen are many full-scale commercial rollouts. In fact, those could be counted on one hand. Sure, near field communication technology is still relatively new–but in a world where new innovations […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Every time you turn around you see an NFC pilot program cropping up somewhere in the world. What you haven’t seen are many full-scale commercial rollouts. In fact, those could be counted on one hand. Sure, near field communication technology is still relatively new – but in a world where […]

Identity Stronghold announces it will supply the U.S. General Services Administration with Secure Sleeves™ and Secure Badgeholders™ as part of the EDS team which was recently awarded the $66 Million HSPD 12 ID Management Services contract. Identity Stronghold will be providing EDS the “electromagnetically opaque sleeve” required by the federal government standard FIPS 201, thus […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor Now that federal agencies are invested in the planned government-wide issuance of highly secure, interoperable smart card IDs, actually implementing the new system remains the biggest practical and technological hurdle. “The card is only the first stage,” says Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. “There’s a whole […]