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Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 12th, 2017

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The Marine Corps in September completed fielding a new multimodal biometrics system, the Identity Dominance System-Marine Corps (IDS-MC), to help deployed Marines identify individuals they encounter on the battlefield, at entry control point operations, and determine friend from foe. The handheld Secure Enrollment Kit, which is supplied by Crossmatch Technologies, is combined with a laptop computer and badge printer and replaces the Biometric Enrollment Screening Device. The Marine Corps says it’s IDS-MC “conveniently collects, shares, matches and stores identify information…

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