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Army Ready for New Round of ABIS Testing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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The Army this month will begin a new 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 testing last 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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