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Boeing awards ImageWare Systems new biometric contract

Thursday, March 6, 2008

ImageWare® Systems, headquartered in San Diego, California received a one-year, multiple award initial task order contract valued in excess of $100,000 from Boeing Integrated Defense Systems unit. ImageWare will support Boeing customers and help drive awareness of systems capabilities and solutions. In addition, ImageWare will integrate its IWS™ Mediator™ solutions, including two-way speech to speech and multilingual chat, into Boeing’s open architecture program environments, which include its Command and Control Middleware and Information Assurance applications. [end] 

International Biometric Group (IBG) announced that it has been awarded two research awards by the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) for their Public Security Technical Program. The research awards stipulate that IBG work within a consortium that also includes other Canadian government entities as well as select experts from academia and the biometrics industry to look at various biometric technologies that can be utilized for national security in the country.

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The 10th Annual Tech Titans and Titan Fast Awards have named Entrust’s IdentityGuard Mobile application a finalist in the Corporate Horizon category. The award is granted by the Texas based technology trade organization, Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC).

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GloberRanger Corp., a provider of RFID, mobility, and sensor-based solutions, has been named a finalist in the Emerging Company Horizon Award category as part of the 10th Annual Tech Titans and Titan Fast Tech.

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ImageWare Systems, a developer of biometric technology, has announced that they are creating a project called the Open Biometrics Initiative (OBI) intending to push biometric technology development in the open source software development environment. The OBI project will take place by ImageWare operating a forum that will be available to anyone in the open source community.

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L-1 Identity Solutions has announced it has been awarded a contract for research and development by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, Human Factors Division. The contract stipulates for L-1 to develop a next generation technology for use in a four-finger slap image capture mobile biometric device.

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BIO-key International has announced a new contract that requires a biometric solution built off a combination between its and fellow biometric developer MorphoTrak’s matching algorithms, according to a UPI article.

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