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Army Preparing For New Round Of ABIS Testing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

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Army Preparing For New Round Of ABIS Testing

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

The Army is preparing to conduct a round of end-to-end customer testing of its upgraded biometric database after a delay to fix problems encountered in an earlier round of user testing last summer. Following the testing in August of the latest version of the biometric repository, the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) 1.2, the Army Product Manager for the Biometrics Enabling Capability (BEC) implemented fixes to the shortfalls identified by the users. Those shortfalls include connectivity issues between the users…

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