In-Q-Tel invests in CoreStreet

In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's investment arm, is putting funds into a company that makes a new type of access control system.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Ariz. lawmakers balk at new driver's licenses

Opposition is building in Arizona's Legislature to a plan to authorize a hybrid driver's license that also would serve as a border-crossing card and would comply with the Real ID Act.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Contractor employees implicated in passport breach

<font color="CC0000"><b>UPDATED</b></font color>?Stanley Inc. and Analysis Corp. were named as the contractors involved in the improper accessing of the passport file of presidential candidate Barack Obama.

  • By Ben Bain and Nick Wakeman

Registered traveler debuts in Washington

Dulles International and Reagan National airports have become the 15th and 16th airports in the country to begin offering the Registered Traveler service.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

L-1 wins State passport card work

L-1 Identity Solutions will serve as the prime contractor for the State Department's new passport card under a deal valued at $107 million.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Drive time for facial recognition

Biometric technology catches on with DMVs, but privacy concerns slow broader reach.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Math communication = success

A conversation with Barbara Humpton, Lockheed Martin Corp.'s project manager of the FBI's $1 billion Next Generation Identification biometric system.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

The trouble with security clearances

Lawmakers decry inefficiency in screening process.

  • By Wade-Hahn Chan

Three win HSPD-12 services work

DHS has awarded five-year blanket purchase agreement contracts to BearingPoint Inc., EDS Corp. and Xtec Inc. to provide services to comply with HSPD-12.

  • By Jason Miller

Hybrid licenses catch on in Washington State

Washington State has issued more than 2,000 new hybrid drivers license-passport cards since it began issuing them a month ago, and 13,000 more people have signed up to apply.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

US-VISIT expands its vision

With success and money, DHS program could fuel more opportunities.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Mantech wins Eagle task order

A unit of ManTech International will provide independent verification and validation and security services to DHS' Science and Technology Directorate.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Booz Allen wins AF biometrics work

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a contract to conduct a biometrics research project at the request of the Air Force.

  • By William Welsh

Lockheed wins FBI biometric contract

Lockheed Martin Corp. is expected to be named the winner today of the FBI's new $1 billion biometric database contract, according to industry sources.

  • By Ben Bain and Alice Lipowicz

EU weighs traveler biometric requirements

By next summer U.S. travelers may have to start providing fingerprints and personal information to authorities before being allowed to enter Europe.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

U.K. delays national ID system

The planned national identity card system in the United Kingdom will be delayed two years, until 2012, according to U.K. media reports.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Three giants compete for FBI biometric deal

IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. are in the running for the FBI's new $1 billion biometric database contract expected to be awarded this week.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

U.K. airport chooses iris recognition

Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom is launching that nation's first iris recognition access-control system for airport employees.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Avineon wins Bureau of Engraving and Printing deal

Avineon will support the bureau in designing and manufacturing high-quality security documents, which also deter counterfeiting.

  • By Mary Mosquera

L-1 gets passport printer orders

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. has received new orders from the State Department for passport printers.

  • By William Welsh
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