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Cogent Says Not Selected For NGI Fingerprint Matching Effort

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Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Cogent Systems [COGT] says thatLockheed Martin [LMT], the prime contractor for the FBI's next-generation biometric database, did not select it for the fingerprint matching portion of the program. Industry analysts had already begun reporting that Lockheed Martin had selected Sagem Morpho, a unit of France's SAFRAN Group, for the first increment of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. NGI is an upgrade to the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (IAFIS). However, plans call for NGI to…

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