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Homeland Security

HCL Technologies Launches Biometric-Based PIV Card for Airport Security

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

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India's HCL Technologies has launched AeroPASS, a personal identification verification (PIV) credential that is embedded with an individual's photograph, fingerprint biometrics and PIK using digital certificate management, for expediting the passage of pilots and flight attendants through security checkpoints and into sterile airport areas. AeroPASS was developed with Daon and the airline communications firm AvFinity LLC. "AeroPASS will cost an airline's crew members less than half that of a newspaper each day and will improve quality of life and time…

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