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Homeland Security

BTF Readies New Round of Solicitations for S&T Programs

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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TAMPA, Fla.--The Pentagon agency overseeing the Defense Department's top programs to integrate biometric technologies and capabilities plans any day to release a second round of solicitations for the development and demonstration of biometric and related technologies in an operational environment, an agency official says. Specifically, the solicitations will seek solutions in two focus areas. One is the use of a single sensor to capture multiple biometrics, such as fingerprints, vascular patterns and hand geometry, or a camera that can possibly…

Congress

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