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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

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FBI CJIS Issues RFI for Smartphone Biometric Application Project The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division has issued a Request for Information from industry on commercially available software applications to enable biometric capture on smart phones compatible with the Android operating system. The biometric smartphone program was approved in January and is expected to take one-year and include four phases. The FBI says $500,000 will be available to each vendor that is selected. The RFI will help produce an…

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