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US Military Invests in Smartphone Device That Scans, IDs Faces
The US Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a $3 million research contract to California-based AOptix to develop “groundbreaking” technology that could one day allow troops in the field to use a smartphone to scan and record facial features and identity people from a distance, AOptix announced Wednesday. “The DOD saw an early version of [...]
Data Center Improves Self-service for ID Cards
The Defense Manpower Data Center is making it easier for service members and their families to get and maintain identification cards. The center has launched its RAPIDS — Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System — self-service portal to allow service members and reservists with the Defense Department’s common access card, or CAC, to apply for family [...]
New Mini Antenna Extends IFF for Soldiers, UAVs
Raytheon Company has developed a miniaturized interrogation antenna capability to extend use of its Cooperative Target ID technology to soldiers and unmanned aircraft to help prevent fratricide. This effort builds upon an existing Raytheon antenna design and additional enhancements performed in concert with the U.S. Army CERDEC Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD). The new [...]
Northrop to Continue Support of DoD Automated Biometric ID System
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on task order valued at up to $141 million for continued development of the U.S. Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System (DoD-ABIS), which provides military personnel with reliable and timely identification of persons of suspected threat to U.S. national security. The task order was awarded under the Information [...]
DOD to drop Social Security numbers from ID cards
Beginning June 1, Social Security numbers on military identification cards will begin to disappear, said Maj. Monica M. Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The effort is part of a larger plan to protect service members and other DOD identification card holders from identity theft, officials said. Criminals use Social Security numbers to steal identities, allowing them [...]
Exchange ID check goes hi-tech
DALLAS, Texas: Implementation of an updated point-of-sale system that leverages the technological advances available through “smart” Common Access Cards is streamlining the identification process for age-restricted items at Army and Air Force Exchanges. AAFES new point-of-sale system, which rolled out to continental U.S. locations on Sept. 22, prompts associates to check identification when a restricted [...]
Firms Accelerate DNA ID For Police, Homeland Security And Defense
Tampa FL: Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. have unveiled a new DNA analysis system that has potential to transform how law enforcement, homeland security and defense communities use DNA-based identification in support of their missions. The prototype, called RapI.D., will be previewed at a 2010 Biometric Consortium Conference special session on Rapid DNA. The [...]
Biometric ID Technologies Inherently Fallible
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2010 Biometric systems – designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition – are “inherently fallible,” says a new report by the National Research Council, and no single trait has been identified that is stable and distinctive [...]
Combat ID technology evaluated in joint exercise
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.: The largest exercise designed to examine advanced combat identification technologies that can reduce the risk of fratricide on future battlefields wrapped up recently. The U.S. Joint Forces Command exercise, Bold Quest 2009, was held at both Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C. The joint exercise included participants from [...]
