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Army Expects to Deploy Upgraded ABIS System this Week

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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TAMPA, Fla.—Independent operating testing that was completed earlier this month of an upgraded version of the Defense Department’s biometric database went well and the system is expected to be deployed next week, an Army official says here. The results of the tests were scheduled to be presented last Friday to Douglas Wiltsie, the Army’s Program Executive Officer for Enterprise Information Systems, and he is expected to approve the DoD Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) 1.2 version to enter operations on…

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