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Lockheed Martin Nabs FBI Contract To Develop Multi-Modal Biometric Database

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The FBI yesterday selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] as the systems integrator for an award potentially worth nearly $1 billion to design, develop and deploy its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System, which will expand its current electronic fingerprint-based database to include multiple biometrics to better improve the identification and capture of criminals and terrorists. The initial value of the contract, which includes a base year and nine option years, is nearly $40 million for the first year and…

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