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NGI Framework Will Allow Inclusion of Emerging Biometrics

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Thursday, February 14th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system will include a plan for integrating various mature biometric technologies such as palm prints, but will also allow for the inclusion in the future of technologies that currently aren't mature, Lockheed Martin [LMT] officials said yesterday. "The beauty of the architecture and the framework we're building here is we will be exploring what is commercially available, we will be exploring what's being developed in the universities, and will eventually be…

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