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GTSI Nabs $159M Army Award for BAT-A

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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

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The Army has awarded GTSI Corp. [GTSI] a 16-month, $159 million contract to provide warfighters mobile biometric devices to assist in real-time identification of persons of interest in the field. The Biometric Automated Toolset-Army award was made under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Hardware contract. GTSI is partnered with Cross Match Technologies, Inc., to deliver the portable, rugged multi-biometric solution. The BAT-A toolset includes an enrollment kit consisting of a laptop computer and attached biometric devices capable of enrollment, verification,…

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