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IARPA Issues BAA for Biometrics Exploitation S&T Program

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking innovative research and development proposals for the Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology Program to significantly advance the state-of-the-art for biometrics technologies. The overarching goals of the program are to significantly advance the Intelligence Community's ability to achieve high-confidence match performance, even when the features are derived from non-ideal data, and to significantly relax the constraints currently required to acquire high fidelity biometric signatures. Technologies that…

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