British Columbia is accepting volunteers to apply for Canada's first hybrid driver's license that doubles as a border crossing card for entry into the U.S.
Unisys Corp. has won a task order from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to deploy readers and other technologies to support the use of RFID on new ID cards at U.S. borders.
L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. will help California fingerprint more than 300,000 daycare workers as part of a biometrics-based, criminal-history search initiative.
CACI International will help DOJ organize and share data critical to the investigation and prosecution of criminals under a new contract with the department's Justice Management Division.
The stock price of federal biometrics supplier Cogent Inc. is recovering after taking a dip Monday on media speculation that it may have been overvalued.
DHS released grant guidelines this week to assist states in applying for $35 million to begin implementing Real ID requirements for handling personal data associated with driver's licenses.
As the deadline for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative approaches, another border state has decided to offer enhanced driver's licenses to its citizens.
Long-distance radio frequency ID tags are the best technology choice for the upcoming U.S. passport card program despite their apparent shortcomings, a Motorola Inc. executive said.
A new handheld biometric terminal from Datastrip Inc. reads contact and contactless chips found on identity documents and cards such as passports and driver's licenses.
Science Applications International Corp. has won an Army contract to provide biometrics services for the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems.
After taking public comments into account, DHS officials have submitted a revised set of minimum federal standards that states must meet when issuing driver's licenses and ID cards to satisfy the Real ID Act of 2005.
