An industry-led effort to create a framework that will allow different ways for the nation's airports to adopt standards for biometric enabled access control for their employees is in the early phases of a pilot project that includes six airports with three more on the way. Six airports are currently participating in the Biometric Airport Security Identification Consortium (BASIC) pilot begun last spring and all are in the first or second phase of the four phase effort, Lori Beckman, an…
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