Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority has made iris scanning available at more than 5,000 counters nationwide as it expands biometric identification for children. The authority says the additional capture […]

The US Department of Homeland Security has opened a governmentwide competition worth more than $440 million for biometric capture devices and related equipment. The multiple-award contract is divided into fingerprint, […]

The FBI has detailed a long-running research program that uses biometric data from twins to test how reliably artificial intelligence systems can distinguish people with unusually similar appearances. The bureau […]

TECH5 recorded a 0.088 second search against 500,000 identities in NIST IREX 10, the lowest search time in the evaluation’s two-eye developer table.

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority has made iris scanning available without charge at every NADRA registration center in the country. The authority is encouraging citizens to add iris records […]

U.S. Special Operations Command has opened an industry collaboration process focused on contactless iris collection. A special notice posted through SAM.gov identifies SOFWERX and USSOCOM’s Program Executive Office for Tactical […]

Papua New Guinea is planning a phased move toward biometric voter identification and electronic voting, beginning with photo-roll trials in selected regions rather than an immediate nationwide conversion. Administrative Services […]

Vadzo Imaging has introduced an OEM engineering service that pairs near-infrared LED array boards with its monochrome NIR cameras, giving developers of biometric and embedded vision systems a single integrated […]

The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services division has issued a request for information seeking industry input on biometric matching algorithms for its Next Generation Identification system, the national repository that […]

Neurotechnology says its latest iris recognition algorithm has ranked first across the reported accuracy metrics in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s IREX 10 evaluation. IREX 10 is NIST’s […]