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Zetes awarded two new contracts from Cote d'Ivoire

Monday, January 12, 2009

Zetes, a European supplier of biometric technology, has announced that they have been awarded two new contracts by the Cote d’Ivoire government. The new contracts are coming off the involvement Zetes had in the project involving regular biometric passports as the new contracts deal with diplomatic and service passports as well as supplying biometric visas and consular registration cards.

Other portions of the contracts include the installation of registration stations in embassies in a number of countries as well as one at Abidjan Airport. Other work on these projects will be performed by The National Company for the Issue of Administrative and Identity Documents acting on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A third company involved in the project is Hologram Industries who will be handling the solutions for authentication of the documents. [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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Zetes, European provider in automatic identification solutions and services for goods and people announced it is acquiring 51% of the shares in NETWave, a provider of Auto-ID solutions for the supply chain in Greece.

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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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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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Digital Identification Solutions Group, through its UAE distributor Emirates Photo Marketing, has been awarded a seven-figured Euro contract for the supply of personalization systems and consumables to the Abu Dhabi Federal Government.

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Airlines are interested in using NFC technology for passenger check-in, according to check-in.aero. In 2009, Air France, Amadeus and IER partnered with Nice Côte d’Azur Airport to test NFC technology.

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