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L-1 Announces Nearly $6M in Contracts

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

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L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] has received two contracts worth over $5.7 million, including a $3.7 award from Panama's Tribunal Electoral de Panama to upgrade that country's National ID system which also serves as voter registration system. Under the Panama contract L-1 will deliver DFR 2100 Single Fingerprint Readers, the ABIS System Search Engine for face and fingerprint image searches, and BioTouch 500 and BioLogon Software for administrator authentication. L-1 originally won the contract last fall but the award was protested,…

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