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Stanley awarded Army contract

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

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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Human Recognition Systems (HRS) has added features and enhancements to its MForce latent fingerprint processing product.

In an effort to reduce operation times and costs, HRS has developed MForce as a mobile biometric product that enables law enforcement officers and military to obtain and process latent and livescan fingerprints in the field. By processing prints onsite, users are able to quickly provide investigators with intelligence.

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GTSI Corp, an information technology systems integrator, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense that will see the company provide Army personnel with mobile biometric solutions enabling them to better identify persons of interest in the field.

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Lumidigm announced a partnership with Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited to bring a criminal identity solution that utilizes iris recognition and will also offer fingerprint recognition sensors from Lumidigm.

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Accurate Biometric announced it has been awarded a contract from the FBI for its Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).

The contract is a significant one for Accurate as it enables them to offer same-day FBI fingerprint submission services for criminal background checks to clients such as housing authorities, Indian reservations and banks.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to add biometric modalities and other enhancements to the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT uses digital fingerprints and photographs. A pilot program included in the contract will test facial and iris voluntary identification enrollment and matching.

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Northrup Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Biometrics Operations and Support Services – Unrestricted (BOSS-U) program to further develop and supply their DNA identification system developed by IntegenX.

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