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Army

New DoD Biometrics Database Already Demonstrating Worth, Officials Say

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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker The Defense Department's next-generation biometrics repository that went online in late January is already exceeding the capabilities of the system it replaced and is also showing itself to be a reliable platform that is already accepting routine fixes and upgrades, DoD and Army officials said yesterday. The Next Generation Automated Biometric Identification System (NGA) is making about 10 percent more matches than the prototype ABIS and 96 percent "lights out" matches versus 88 percent for ABIS, Greg…

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