The Army Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center, Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, has issued two separate Requests for Information (RFI) related to biometrics, one for non-cooperative biometric template pattern recognition and the other for non-cooperative biometric algorithm development. The RFIs say that there is no architecture or system for collecting, processing, storing, or disseminating non-cooperatively collected biometrics data for intelligence, surveillance and recognition, exploitation, tracking and targeting purposes. It also says there are not sufficient non-cooperative biometric templates from which to train and test biometric pre- processing and matching algorithms. The RFIs seeks from industry approaches and best practices for accomplishing these capabilities. For pattern recognition, the RFI (Sol. No. W15P7T11RH222) is seeking a partner in industry or academia to perform pattern recognition analysis on this data set to determine how the control images (cooperative biometric template) resolution would be degraded under varying collection environments. The partner will develop these recognized patterns into algorithms capable of simulating various permutations of a non-cooperative biometric template given a set of conditions and a cooperative biometric template. For algorithm development, the RFI (W15P7T11RH221) requires a thorough examination of the effectiveness of Cooperative Biometric Matching Algorithms on preprocessed biometrics and recommended modifications to both pre-processing and matching algorithms. Effectiveness here is defined as the ability to increase the confidence of correlation/match on non-cooperative biometric templates as well as decreasing the false accept/reject rate. Contact: Renee Gardner, 410-436-2123.