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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016

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IARPA Plans Proposers” Day for Odin ProgramThe Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) plans to host a Proposers’ Day on March 11 in advance of Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Odin program, which is aimed at developing biometric presentation attack detection technologies to ensure biometric security systems can detect when someone is attempting to disguise their biometric identity. Proposed approaches must be capable of detecting presentation attacks that they may have never seen before, instead of implementing protections against…

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