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DoD Biometrics Official Says Focus Shifting to Future Threats, Technology Needs

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

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TAMPA, Fla.—The Defense Department official that oversees biometric efforts across the DoD enterprise, including the science and technology portfolio, says at a conference here that his focus has shifted from support of immediate warfighting needs to future threats and ways to counter those threats.“The idea is to look out five years or so, anticipate what sort of technology threats will exist, use prototyping to figure out what sort of technology pieces can we put in place to counter the threat…

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