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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

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Intellicheck Mobilisa [IDN] has received a $195,000 contract from the Army at Fort Leonard Wood to upgrade and expand the current Defense ID system and provide additional IM2610 handheld identification card readers that will be used to authenticate identification cards used by visitors that utilize the vehicle lanes at the facility. The readers will also allow National Crime Information Center queries if desired. Intellicheck in 2010 won the contract to provide Fort Leonard Wood with the Defense ID access control…

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