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House Panels Boosts Funding For DoD Biometric Database

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, June 20th, 2011

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Pleased with how various federal partners are sharing information among their respective biometric databases, a House panel that funds the Defense Department proposes to transfer over $26 million from warfighting accounts to the Army’s Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) and boost the budget request for the system by nearly $4 million. The House Appropriations Committee in its markup of the FY ’12 defense budget request says that ABIS has an “enduring requirement” and transfers $26.2 million from the Army’s overseas…

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