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Homeland Security

DoD, DHS Enhance Interoperability Between Respective Biometric Databases

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, May 5th, 2017

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DoD, DHS Enhance Interoperability Between Respective Biometric Databases

U.S. Army Soldier capturing facial photos with a Handheld Interagency Identification Equpment device at checkpoint in Afghanistan.

The Departments of Defense and Homeland Security last week both turned on new applications that will enhance interoperability between their respective authoritative repositories of biometric records that are used to deprive anonymity to known and suspected terrorists in war zones and help keep terrorists and criminals from entering the United States.Up until last week there wasn’t “true interoperability” between the DoD Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) and the DHS IDENT system, Patrick Nemeth, director of the Identity Operations Division of…

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