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Trump’s DHS Transition Landing Team Includes Carafano, Head Of Biometrics Group

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016

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Trump’s DHS Transition Landing Team Includes Carafano, Head Of Biometrics Group

James Carafano, national security expert at the Heritage Foundation. Photo: Heritage Foundation

The President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday morning announced two members to its transition landing team at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), James Carafano, a national security expert with the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, and Michael Dougherty, CEO of the Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA), an industry trade association that promotes secure identity technologies and biometric solutions to secure individuals, organizations and governments from identity threats.Dougherty jointed SIBA as its lead in September 2015 after working at Raytheon…

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