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TSA Expanding Evaluations Of Biometrics To ID Travelers At Checkpoints

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TSA Expanding Evaluations Of Biometrics To ID Travelers At Checkpoints
The Transportation Security Administration is using IDEMIA's Credential Authentication Technology-Camera in a new self-service checkpoint application. The agency is seeking information for a new CAT system. Photo: TSA

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the coming weeks plans to expand field testing of facial matching technology it trialed this fall at an airport to allow a touchless experience for travelers and agency officers at a document checking station, an agency official said on Tuesday. The evaluation of the Credential Authentication Technology-Camera (CAT-C) system at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., showed that the facial comparison technology “is extremely accurate and it’s also very fast,” Austin Gould, assistant administrator…

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