A draft report by a House Appropriations panel wants the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to accelerate plans for multimodal biometrics as part of a new biometric database the department is developing.The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee recommends withholding $29.3 million in FY ’17 funds for planning and acquisition of Increment 2 of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) program until it receives plans to accelerate this portion of the program. In Increment 2 of HART, the DHS Office of…
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