The FBI application of BIO-key's tech is another excellent path to expanding market penetration. With the FBI they are covering the government and potentially military sectors in addition to their commercial applications.
It also looks like the FBI is in taking cybersecurity very seriously now with the establishment of a new dedicated center in West Virginia...
FBI: New Biometrics Technology Centre key to future identity management
29 December 2015 10:59 GMT
Senior FBI officials say a new Biometrics Technology Centre opening in West Virginia will have an important impact on inter-agency communication in solving and preventing crime and terror cases.
Speaking to local media in the state, Assistant Director Steve Morris told the Exponent Telegram that the centre will create an expanded mission for the Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
“Our goal is to have about 1,000 employees assigned to CJIS working out of that building,” Assistant Director Steve Morris told the newspaper’s Jim Davis.
Morris said the expansion by the FBI to cover further modalities such as voice recognition and rapid DNA is proving important.
“The expansion from just doing fingerprints to other biometrics has emerged as the wave of the future when it comes to identity intelligence and identity management,” Morris said, predicting growth in usage of the new technology will expand now that the FBI and Defense Department effort will be under the same roof.
“We’re trying to capture the synergy across the US government, with the FBI and Department of Defense leading the way,” Morris said.
“We know there’s an interest from other US agencies, not only to participate in what we’re doing, but to be here,” he said.
The Biometrics Technology Center is a state-of-the art, four-storey, 360,000-square-foot building.
Located on the campus of our Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, the BTC is expected to enable the Bureau’s CJIS Division, which has the largest centralized collection of biometric information in the world, and the DOD, with its military biometrics database systems, to make advances in a variety of identification technologies like DNA, iris recognition, voice patterns, facial patterns, and palm prints.
FBI and DOD biometrics experts working side-by-side in the facility will also focus on biometrics product certification, training, standards development, privacy rights, and research and development into emerging technologies.
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