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Unlike its original electronic fingerprint database that went more than a decade without upgrading its fingerprint matching software, the FBI’s new multimodal biometric database is being enhanced along the way, […]

Any day now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is about to award a contract to replace its existing biometric repository with a more robust and scalable system but the […]

Next February, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expects to have the robust information technology network backbone ready so that it can scale to handle the ramp up of a biometric-based […]

Bollinger Shipyards delivered to the Coast Guard the 25th 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, the USCGC Jacob Poroo, which will be the second FRC stationed in Pascagoula, Miss. The Poroo will […]

Bahrain is moving forward with the development its fleet of F-16 fighter jets after a potential $3.9 deal for the delivery of 19 new aircraft and the necessary components to […]

Britain’s Rolls-Royce revealed plans to offer a a large autonomous naval vessel for single-role missions on Sept. 12. Unlike small drones or unmanned undersea submersibles, the company described the vessel as being […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Israel’s Elbit Systems [ESLT] signed a strategic teaming agreement to work together on the UK Royal Navy’s Maritime Electronic Warfare Program (MEWP), the companies said Sept. 13. MEWP is […]

The U.S. government the week of Sept. 10 awarded Boeing [BA] a modification to a previously awarded Navy contract for full-rate production of 14 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft while also approving the […]

The Department of Homeland Security on Sept. 13 ordered all federal agencies to stop using Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab’s software products over concerns surrounding the company’s ties to potential Kremlin […]

The State Department on Aug. 31 said it has approved a potential 10-year $360 million upgrade program for 24 Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk helicopters used by Australia’s navy mainly for anti-submarine […]