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Northrop Grumman In Second Year of Next Generation ABIS Development

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Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] has begun to get the computer architecture in place for the Defense Department's new biometric database and, by the end of this year, is expected to have the computer system ready to begin adding biometric search capabilities, the Army project manager overseeing the work said recently. Northrop Grumman is currently in the second year of developing the next generation Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), which in addition to housing fingerprints will also store other biometric records. The…

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