Homeland Security Report

JIDO Taps Booz Allen Hamilton for $326M IT Support Contract Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] won a potential $325.9 million contract from the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) to provide reliable […]

KLM, Schiphol Begin Facial Recognition Test for Passenger Boarding Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have begun a three-month voluntary “biometric boarding” trial that allows passengers to board […]

After completing work last year on biometric exit technologies and potential operating concepts for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) branch […]

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is developing its plan to expedite the rollout of a biometric solution to augment the tracking of foreign nationals as they depart the United States […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its final Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new database and matching system that incorporates multiple biometric modalities, a key difference from […]

PricewaterhouseCoopers has received a six-month contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide data analytic support services to the Office of Cybersecurity & Communications, Federal Network Resilience. The value […]

IARPA Launches Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has launched the Nail to Nail (N2N) Fingerprint Challenge, which aims to improve live and forensic […]

DTRA Awards Leidos Potential $170M for Chem/Bio Support The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded Leidos [LDOS] a potential $170.2 million contract under the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program […]

Crossmatch Introduces Solution to Combat Fraud in Disaster Operations Crossmatch in January introduced its Foreign Assistance/Disaster Relief Solution that connects biometrics to the assistance delivery record to help combat fraud, […]