*Stanley, Inc. [SXE] received a one-year, $1.7 million contract to provide a working multi-spectral prototype fingerprint sensor and software development kit for integration into mobile biometrics devices for the Language and Technology Office, U.S. Army Intelligence Center, Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Stanley is teamed with Lumidigm, a developer of multi-spectral fingerprint sensors. The multi-spectral sensors capture data from the surface and subsurface of the fingertip for better image quality. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is with the Army Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center-West.
*SAFRAN has completed its acquisition of Motorola’s [MOT] biometric business unit, including the Printrak trademark, bolstering its fingerprint matching business in the U.S. and globally. France’s SAFRAN first announced the acquisition, through its wholly owned subsidiary Sagem Securite, last fall (TR2, Oct. 29, 2008). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SAFRAN says that the acquisition improves its position in the U.S. homeland security market and allows it to improve its product offering and expand production in the U.S. With the deal closed, Sagem Securite has created a new U.S. company, MorphoTrak, which combines the old Sagem Morpho and Printrak. MorphoTrak will be led by Daniel Vassy, president and CEO. “The U.S. leads the world in biometric and ID management solutions, and we now have an organization that can provide the type of industry leadership needed in critical areas such as interoperability, standards, mobility, fusion, multimodal applications and non-biometric identity technologies,” says Vassy.