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AMREL Plans to Offer New Handheld Biometric Device for Army Competition

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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American Reliance, Inc. (AMREL), the first company to introduce notebook computers in the U.S. market in the early 1990s, has been developing a rugged handheld biometric collection device that it plans to submit for an upcoming evaluation by Army testers as part of a potential competition for the next-generation of handheld biometric units used by the U.S. military. The Handheld Biometric Solution (HBS-2) weighs just two pounds, captures fingerprints, iris and facial images as well as voice, contains an onboard…

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