
Any day now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is about to award a contract to replace its existing biometric repository with a more robust and scalable system but the department’s identity management office is already focused on future needs looking out five years and beyond.Other groups within the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) are looking at technologies and capabilities over the next five years but the Future Identity group is “looking at five years and beyond,” John Boyd,…