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Homeland Security

Army Seeks Wall-Mounted Identity Detection System

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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The Army plans to undertake a design effort to develop a semi-autonomous multi-modal (iris and facial recognition) collection, enrollment, validation and identification device that will support access control, biometrics enrollment and identify verification in many operational scenarios. The capture volume of the device will not be less than 10 cubic inches. Current technology allows for about six cubic inches. Any device developed under this effort will be integrated with the Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) application program software. There are about…

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