Insight Technology Solutions, Inc., a woman-owned small business, has acquired Bara Infoware’s General Services Administration OASIS Poo1 small business contract, giving Insight the opportunity to continue to support its Department of Homeland Security clients while also opening up new civilian and Defense Department markets. The multiple award OASIS contract supports government agencies in acquiring complex hybrid program management, management consulting, financial, logistics, engineering and professional services.
Crossmatch Government Market Director Ben Ball says in his blog for the company that Customs and Border Protection’s seeming strong interest in using facial recognition for a biometric exit program is “simply the wrong choice,” adding that the technology cannot accurately recognize the 95 percent target sought in the Department of Homeland Security’s planned HART biometric database. He says that “If CBP goes forward with a facial recognition solution, a large corps of examiners will be needed to sort through the sea of images which the system cannot identify accurately.”So far, he adds, that CBP’s current tests are more “laboratory experiments” involving matches against “a small back-end system” rather than the current database of record, IDENT.