Law enforcement agencies nationwide will receive free software and equipment within the coming weeks to access the FBI’s database of mug shots, Nextgov reports. The bureau has nearly 12 million mug shots of unidentified people in its system and plans to use facial recognition software to identify people of interest in candid photos and illegal [...]
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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are claiming the quality of iris scans can degrade slowly over time, R&D Magazine reports. These new findings would bring into question the single enrollment for life concept, where the biometric marker remains stable throughout a person’s life. Kevin Bowyer, Notre Dame’s Schubmel-Prein Family Chair in computer science [...]
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BAE to Provide Additional Army Battlefield HEADS Sensors; Don Dutton Comments
July 11, 2012 No CommentBAE Systems announced Monday was awarded a $16.9 million contract modification to supply the Army with additional helmet sensors for identifying combat-related head injuries. Don Dutton, BAE Systems protection vice president and general manager, said the data collected by Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems Generation II helmet sensors during traumatic events will be used [...]
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The Federal Drug Administration is proposing a new identification process for most medical devices distributed in the U.S., the agency announced Tuesday. In 2007, Congress passed legislation directing the FDA to develop regulations for a unique device identifier. The UDI would be a numeric or alphanumeric code and include a serial number, expiration date or [...]
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The FBI wants to add iris scan information to its database for tracking and identifying criminals, Nextgov reports. Aliya Sternstein reports the FBI is allocating $1 billion for the Next-Generation Identification System, a program to expand the server capacity of the bureau’s fingerprint database. Such a database would include iris scans, fingerprints, facial images and [...]
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NIST, Partners Aim For Interoperable Biometric Devices; Kevin Mangold Comments
May 7, 2012 No CommentSpecifications under development by the National Institute of Standards and Technology could foster the exchange of biometric information with any Internet-connected mobile device, GCN reports. NIST’s Special Publication 500-288 guidelines — developed under a joint NIST, FBI and Department of Homeland Security program — aims to create biometric technologies that are more interoperable and intuitive, the [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security expects to have a new biographic system that provides more functionality between data repositories in place by June, Fierce Homeland Security reports. Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the final plan for the biographic exit program is in the process of being cleared by the Office [...]
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is finding it increasingly easy to complete accurate identity checks via iris scans, the Commerce Department reports. NIST examined 11 organizations and their techniques for acquiring and matching eye imagery. The agency said the resulting Iris Exchange III report validates the speed and accuracy claims of iris biometrics [...]
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Military-funded research has yielded a biochip that could detect injuries to service members based on traumatic events, according to NextGov. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, a bioengineering and computer engineering researcher, applied for a patent last Thursday for an implantable biochip that would manage trauma-induced hemorrhages. Guiseppi-Elie’s biochip technology would remotely monitor soldiers on a battlefield. The research [...]
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The Defense Department is set to launch two large-scale tests on whether biometrics can control who leaves and enters military facilities, Federal News Radio reports. The military has put its Common Access Cards with biometrics to limited use so far but Brian Hunt, the Army’s Biometrics Identity Management Agency chief of the future applications, indicated at [...]
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