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Army Readying Competition To Maintain And Upgrade Biometric Database

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

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Army Readying Competition To Maintain And Upgrade Biometric Database

Col. Don Hurst, Project Manager PMO DoD Biometrics. Photo: U.S. Army

TAMPA, Fla.—The Defense Department this year is expected to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a contract to maintain and upgrade its existing biometric database, bringing the technology up to date and extending its service life until a new system is developed and deployed.The current Defense Department Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) is version 1.2 and was deployed in the fall of 2014, giving the system more storage capacity for identity records, higher throughput for search queries, greater accuracy,…

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