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BIO-key awarded $2 million biometric contract

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Wall, N.J.-based BIO-key International has been awarded a $2 million contract to integrate its biometric technology with a large multi-national technology company. BIO-key will license components of its VST finger matching software to be used on multiple, large international and domestic opportunities. Under the terms of the license agreement, BIO-key received a $2 million order for software licenses that will be delivered during the second and third quarters of the current fiscal year. [end] 

Stanley Inc. has been awarded two contracts from the U.S. Army totally $7.9 million, according to a Washington Business Journal article.

The contracts stipulate Stanley support programs out of the Army Intelligence Center Language Technology Office in Arizona intended to develop biometric and forensic systems and to work on the Detainee Information Management System, a systems that tracks detainees while in custody, and the Multilingual Automate Registration System, a system designed to enroll detainee’s biometric information via multilingual interfaces.

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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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L-1 Identity Solutions, a developer of biometric technology, has been awarded a contract valued at $18 million and spanning seven years from the State of New Jersey.

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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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International Biometric Group (IBG), a biometric research, consulting and systems integration company, has announced it has been awarded a contract for support staff tasked to the U.S. Army’s Biometric Identity Management Agency (BIMA) Concepts and Technology Branch (C&T).

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Alien Technology and their Denmark channel partner, Lyngsoe Systems, have been awarded a contract to provide an RFID luggage tracking system at Portugal’s main airport hub in Lisbon.

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