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Accenture, Sagem Win Contract for EC Biometric Matching System

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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Accenture [ACN] and Sagem Defense Securite won a contract to develop the European Commission's Biometric Matching System (BMS) which will store fingerprints of up to 70 million people and process more than 100,000 verification and identification requests per day. The BMS is the central biometric component of a collection of European Union identity programs for the protection of citizens and Schengen borders, which currently cover 29 European countries that have agreed to Schengen rules that are designed to eliminate physical…

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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