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Northrop Grumman Delivers Biometric Matching System To DoD For Pilot

Friday, December 7th, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently said it has delivered an automated biometric matching system (ABIS) to the Australian Defence Department for a pilot test as part of the department’s effort to develop a multimodal biometric database for the country’s armed forces. The delivery “marks the start of a six-month trial during which biometric data will be collected, stored, matched and processed in accordance with existing legislative frameworks,” Samuel Abbate, vice president of defense enterprise solutions for Northrop Grumman’s Information Systems sector,…

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