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Homeland Security

Coast Guard Awards MaxID Potential $2.2M for TWIC Readers, Software

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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

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MaxID and its partner P-SIG have received a potential $2.2 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity for about 300 of MaxID's handheld biometric enabled smart card readers and related software to improve port security under the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. Under an initial $750,000 task order MaxID has already delivered 108 of its iDLMAX multi-modal handheld computers and related suite of MaxIDentity software, which allows the handheld units to be used with a wide range of government issued credentials…

Unmanned Systems

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