Implant Sciences Corp.’s [IMSC] board of directors named William McGann, the company’s chief operating officer, as its new CEO effective immediately, letting go former CEO Glenn Bolduc. Bolduc also resigned his seat on Implant’s board. Todd Swearingen, Implant’s general manager for the Americas, says “Glenn did a great job in his tenure with Implant Sciences—indeed, we would not be here today without his efforts, but as the company has evolved, so has its needs.” He adds that the company’s senior management team remains intact.
IMPRES Technology Solutions, Inc. has received a $1.3 million contract from Customs and Border Protection to modernize 15 port of entry sites with an integrated suite of systems that includes laptop and desktop computers, fingerprint sensors and passport scanners to process travelers. The contract was awarded through the Department of Homeland Security’s FirstSource II contract vehicle.
Juniper Research says in a new report that there will be more than 770 million biometric authentication applications will be downloaded annually by 2019 versus six million in 2015, adding that fingerprint authentication would account for the overwhelming majority of such apps in the medium-term. The report, Human Interface & Biometric Technologies: Emerging Ecosystems, also cautions that there is a need to reassure consumers of the security of biometric technologies over PINS and that there still needs to be more public education for the potential of biometrics to be realized.
Customs and Border Protection this month received a week-long, no-cost demonstration of the ScanEagle small unmanned aerial vehicle at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., as part of the agency’s efforts to look for ways to broaden its capabilities. Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary makes the ScanEagle. During the demonstration, the UAV was equipped with an electro-optical and infrared camera.
VidSys says its company founder and chief technology officer James Chong has been appointed the new CEO. VidSys says that in the coming months Chong will focus on expanding the company’s current capabilities to meet the growing demand for its physical security information management software and to scale the company beyond physical security into the information management and Internet of Things markets.