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Military Applications

Militaries around the world use biometrics for secure access control to facilities, equipment, and IT systems, and to identify adversaries in the field.

 

US Army awards $249 million to Leidos for global biometric facility access

The US Army awarded a six-year, $249 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Reston, Virginia-based Leidos for the next…

 

RAND warns of hostile use of AI deepfakes, risks to privacy, democracy

Of the many risks that are explored in a new RAND Europe report, one of the most pressing involves rogue…

 

Parsons gets $1.9M US Army technical direction letter for next-gen biometrics

The US Army granted a technical direction letter worth $1.9 million to Centreville, Virginia-based Parsons Corporation for the acquisition of…

 

US defense agency awards Ouraring $97M for biometric sensor devices

The US Defense Health Agency (DHA) awarded a $96.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to Ouraring Inc. for its third-generation biometric sensor…

 

US Navy to discuss body-worn biometric capable system at industry day event

The U.S. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific will hold an…

 

US Air Force to make award to Trusted Systems for SIPRGuard

The U.S. Air Force 6th Contracting Squadron (6 CONS) at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, issued a justification for a…

 

US Marine Corps issues RFI for observation and sensing tech

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is looking for commercially available technologies that can detect and identify both personnel and unknown…

 

US Army moves closer to fielding next-gen biometrics collection

The U.S. Army recently completed field tests of its $28.3 million Next Generation Biometric Collection Capability (NXGBCC) hardware and software…

 

USSOCOM’s brave new exploitation of the bad guys’ biometrics

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) may soon enter into a long-term contractual agreement with an unidentified academic institution near…

 

US Army base tests facial recognition, AI for threat detection, perimeter monitoring

The U.S. Army is testing a commercial, off-the-shelf AI security system at its Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky….

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