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Army Issues Draft Plans For DoD ABIS Sustainment And Modernization

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

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Army Issues Draft Plans For DoD ABIS Sustainment And Modernization

U.S. Army Soldier capturing facial photos with a Handheld Interagency Identification Equpment device at checkpoint in Afghanistan.

Moving closer to a procurement to sustain and modernize the Defense Department’s authoritative biometrics repository, the Army this month released draft performance work requirements for its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).The Army Contracting Command, on behalf of the Project Manager DoD Biometrics, will host an Industry Day on Friday at Fort Dix, N.J., to discuss the procurement of the DoD ABIS Sustainment Services and Service Life Extension.Northrop Grumman [NOC] is the current prime contractor supporting DoD ABIS and the various…

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