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Navy Plans to Deliver SIIMON Block II Prototype to Marines in July for Testing

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Navy engineers developing a prototype handheld, multi-modal biometric collection and device are on track to deliver the system to the Marine Corps for testing in July. An earlier prototype of the System for Intelligence and Identity Management Operations (SIIMON) was tested by the Navy for Maritime Interception Operations. The upgraded version of SIIMON includes a new camera and iris camera as well as other workflow software specific to the Marine Corps which is interested in testing the device for entry…

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