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DHS Approves Moving Forward with New Biometric Database

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as expected has approved a decision milestone allowing the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) to solicit industry for a solution for a multimodal biometric storage and matching system to replace its current IDENT fingerprint-based database.The decision at the DHS Acquisition Review Board was made by Chip Fulghum, the deputy undersecretary for management and chief financial officer at DHS.The Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system is expected to…

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