Submission + - SPAM: FBI grants Lockheed $1billion biometrics contract
coondoggie writes: "The FBI today awarded Lockheed Martin's Transportation and Security Solutions the contract for the design, development, documentation, integration, testing, and deployment of its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System. As expected, the $1 billion, 10 year services contract will expand on the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which is primarily a fingerprint-based identification system operated and maintained in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The project is an expansion of the data gathering the FBI already does at its Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. CJIS is the FBI's massive central repository for criminal justice information services; the CJIS division operates national-level crime data systems that furnish name checks, fingerprints, criminal history data, mugshots and other information to law enforcement officials.
The FBI said the new system will move beyond what it called a "dependency on a unimodal (fingerprints) biometric identifier" and incorporate multimodal biometrics such as iris and facial imaging.
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