The U.S. Department of Defense has been a leader when it comes to smart cards with its Common Access Card, but the agency is also forward thinking when it comes to biometrics.
The Defense Department is using biometrics in a variety of ways, including overseas for access to bases, at crime scenes to collect forensic information and at some facilities in the U.S. for access control, says Lisa Swan, deputy director for the Defense Department’s Biometric Task Force. The agency is even using multi-modal biometrics, a combination of face, fingerprint and others, to identify individuals in different circumstances.
The Biometric Task Force is a division of the U.S. Army but it works across the Defense Department to enable biometrics. Key to the agency’s efforts is its next generation Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), which was launched Jan. 30 with the help of prime contractor Northup Grumman.
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