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Ideal awarded contract

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Ideal Innovations, a developer of biometric solutions, has been awarded a contract valued at $30.5 million by the U.S. Army’s Biometric Task Force, according to a Washington Business Journal article.

The contract spans one year, but has two options for one-year extensions and will see Ideal providing automated biometric identification system examination services. Further, the company is expecting to use 55 staff, including some newly created positions, to work the jobs required by the contract.

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BIO-key International announced the results of tests performed on its biometric software and matching algorithm at a hospital over the past three months.

The results, which included 251,447 attempts to use biometrics for login to the testing system, ranked between 99.34% and 100% accuracy with zero false matches. This is a near 100% true accept rate and one staff member that logged in 5,999 in November without a single rejection.

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Sirit and the Defense Logistics Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense’s combat logistics support agency, have signed a one year contract for Sirit RFID technology to track and manage the international transport of materials.

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Spokane Public Schools in Washington is rolling out a pilot program that would replace lunch cards with fingerprints. The idea is to make the lunch line move faster.

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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), an engineering and technology development firm, has been awarded a $37 million contract for engineering support and work on the U.S. Army’s Biometrics Automated Toolset – Army (BAT-A) system.

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The U.S. government is helping prisons pay for the installation of iris scanning systems intended to hinder escape attempts such as the recent escape by a Baltimore inmate who simply talked his way out, according to a Security Info Watch article.

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AVISIAN Publishing se complace en anunciar la disponibilidad de un nuevo visualizador de documentos PDF interactivo que le ofrece a nuestros abonados una manera nueva de acceder a nuestras revistas impresas y sus contenidos.

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