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CBP Expands Biometric Exit Evaluations to Dulles Airport

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun the expansion of a year-old biometric technology evaluation aimed at improving the agency’s ability to verify and track the departure of foreign nationals leaving the United States on international flights.The agency earlier this month says it deployed facial recognition technology to Washington Dulles International Airport for one daily flight from the U.S. to Dubai, building on a pilot begun last June at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. That pilot effort is ongoing and has…

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