
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this month awarded IDEMIA a potential $128 million contract to provide the next-generation credential authentication technology (CAT) system that will authenticate a traveler’s government issued identity document at airport security checkpoints and use facial comparison technology to verify that the person presenting a credential is the same individual whose photo is on the document. TSA said it will purchase more than 1,500 of the CAT2 systems under the contract. IDEMIA is the incumbent on the…