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DoD Awards Brazilian Company Contract To Provide Biometric System For Afghanistan, Iraq

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 27th, 2018

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The U.S. Defense Department earlier in September selected Brazil’s Griaule to supply and operate biometric identity management systems for the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq, a contract that represents the company’s largest award with the U.S. government.The award for the Afghanistan and Iraqi Automated Biometric Identification Systems (ABIS) is worth about $75 million over five years. Under the contract, Griaule will supply its ABIS system and biometric matching algorithms, as well as related operations and support help.Griaule is focused on providing ABIS…

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