ABIS RFP Out For Now. The Army says that it has no plans in the “immediate term” to issue a Request for Proposals later this fiscal year for another upgrade to the Defense Department’s authoritative biometric database, the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). The service is currently conducting a round of customer tests to check on fixes put in place over the past six months to ensure that previous upgrades to the ABIS system are working as expected. Problems surfaced…