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Upgraded DoD ABIS Clears One Test Hurdle, Readies for Independent Evaluation

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

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Customer testing of the Defense Department’s upgraded biometric database was successful, clearing the way for an independent operational test of the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) this fall that would pave the way for a go-live decision later this year, the program office said this month. The DoD ABIS 1.2 system was made operational briefly in Aug. 2013 but a number of problems arose, forcing the Defense Department to continue with the ABIS 1.0 system while fixes were made by…

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