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British test "Bug" intelligent video system
Viseum’s anti-Asbo approach turns heads from Luton to Chester; West Midlands considers buying an Israeli UAV capable of identifying license plates from 500 feet
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CPI Card Group earns FIPS 201 certification
Composite-based card stock passes the “paint shaker” test; Atmel supplies the smart card chips
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U.K. minister suggested RFID tags for Alzheimers patients
Malcolm Wicks sets off a civil liberties uproar; “tagging” may not be the most politically correct usage
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DHS cracks down on religious visas
An audit finds that 33 percent of those applying under a religious worker waiver program are not true men of the cloth; 200 imams for one storefront mosque
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Virginia Tech attacks mobilize crisis industry
Flush with federal grants, psychologists use the Web to share data, best practices; American School Counselor Association reports a doubling of membership since 9/11
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Hawley expects TWIC to miss July deadline
Ongoing technical and enrollment problems raise the ire of senators across the aisle; “congressional tolerance in waning,” says Ted Stevens
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ImageWare teams up with Probaris
With demand growing for capabilities beyond HSPD-12 requirements, ImageWare’s IWS biometric engine will enhance Probaris’s ID identity assurance system with 1:N capability
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MDI wins Dominican port security contract
San Antonio-based company will provide system architecture for a biometrics port management system; one of “the largest deployments ever undertaken”
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M2SYs wins Frost & Sullivan biometrics innovation award
Bio-Plugin software tool eases adoption of biometric systems in the commercial market
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Few interested in Registered Traveler
Deloitte & Touche survey finds few Americans have even heard of program, even though most respondents listed long security lines as a top complaint
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L-1's SecuriMetrics wins $71 million DoD biometrics contract
Robert LaPenta sees multi-modal capabilities —- iris, finger, and face in one — as the wave of the future
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Titanium Group to secure Hong Kong Housing Authority
Company wins $1 million contract to provide facial recognition-based time attendance systems for 250 sites; experts call it one of the largest such projects on the island
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TSA issues RFI for airport tracking system
Proposals are expected to include a combination of RFID, biometrics, and sensoer technology; non-proprietary systems preferred
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LaserCard receives $5.9 DHS order
Ongoing relationship with green card and border crossing programs continues to bear fruit for this focussed company
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