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Vision-Box announced the general availability of the first single sourced multimodal biometric ABC eGate. Based on the fastest and thinnest ABC eGate ever produced, the eGate was recently deployed at Schiphol (NL) airport, the 6th busiest Airport in the world by international passenger traffic. This new eGate fully supports iris, fingerprint, and facial recognition biometrics. vb i-match is the first of its kind to be single sourced, designed while keeping in mind the traveler experience and enabling validation of electronic ID documents in 100% of the cases.

Providing patients secure portable medical data in their wallet, paperless registration and vital medical data accessible by first responders in emergencies

LifeMed ID, a "Health Security Smart Card" software company providing patient identity management solutions and medical record connectivity across entire provider systems and disparate groups, has deployed its SecureReg software at Resolute Health in New Braunfels, Texas. The Resolute Health BeneFIT card will be issued at the Resolute Health Center for Wellbeing and the Resolute Health Family Urgent Care Center.

Parents are encouraged to use Abu Dhabi Education Council's (ADEC's) "Parent Assistant" service to help enhance parental involvement in student education. Through the service, which displays the information for students from kindergarten to Grade 12, parents and/or guardians are granted access to student demographic information, medical information, citizenship details, parent/emergency contact/sibling details, attendance, calendar, school holidays, and academic progress. A messaging feature also allows parents to view the messages sent to them by the student's teacher or other staff users.

A program range estimate of 40 to 80 Million secure documents over the contract period

Gemalto announced that it has been selected by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to supply in the range of 40 to 80 million secure Sealys documents for a variety of official permits. These include in particular digital tachograph cards, the next generation of highly-secure polycarbonate driver's licenses, and biometric residence permits, in a multi-year contract.

• Multi-application dual interface payment cards featuring payment, transport and access control
• MultiPass Transport cards launched in collaboration with RATB (Bucharest transport operator)
• Supporter cards launched with football clubs to grant access to stadium

BRD selected Oberthur Technologies to supply innovative multi-application payment cards. This product is a multi-application dual interface payment card featuring the latest applications from payment schemes, as well as built-in capabilities for transport, access control, PKI or biometry. BRD, a subsidiary of Société Générale and market leader in Romania, was already a pioneer in contactless payment in this country.

ConfidentID Mobile to Enable Banks to Reduce Fraud and Identity Theft

CSC announced it has teamed with Daon to launch a biometric authentication service to help banks reduce risk and protect their customers from fraud and identity theft. The offering, ConfidentID Mobile, is built on Daon's IdentityX platform and provides reliable, in and out-of-band identity authentication for online, mobile, and other channel transactions, allowing financial institutions to customize the level of security required for different types of transactions.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has achieved a milestone in the production of the Nation's passport for the Department of State (DOS). GPO has produced 75 million electronic passports at its secure production facilities in Washington, D.C. and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. GPO first started producing electronic passports in 2005. The passport includes an integrated, secure chip and antenna. GPO has been responsible for passport production for DOS since the 1920s. Both of GPO's passport production facilities are ISO 9001 certified. ISO is the International Organization for Standardization and the world's largest developer of international standards used by government, business and new information technology companies and agencies. These globally recognized standards of excellence for production and quality processes assure customers that the agency or company meets their expectations.

GD Burti, the Brazilian subsidiary of international technology group Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), was the first manufacturer of national security documents to meet the security requirements for the new Brazilian eID cards. The high-security RIC (Registry of Civil Identity) cards have been granted certification by Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação, Brazil's foremost IT authority. GD Burti has already delivered more than one million RIC cards as part of an initial pilot project. RIC cards store biometric data and will make it easier for Brazilian nationals to visit other Mercosur treaty states.

HID Global announced that the company has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as "Green Cards," issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security program.  More than three million multi-technology HID Global eID cards have been issued as Green Cards, in addition to more than 30 million of the company's first-generation Green Cards that have been issued since 1997. During its 15 years of use, the card's digital security has never been compromised.

Morpho (Safran group) announced that its US subsidiary, MorphoTrak, was selected by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to provide MorphoBIS, its automated Biometric Identification System, for Colorado's new state-wide system.

"MorphoBIS includes technological advances that will provide the best available accuracy and speed, enabling us to capture and search fingerprints and palm prints and assist Colorado law enforcement to link the offender to the crime," stated Ronald Sloan, the Director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

MorphoBIS is Morpho's next generation biometric identification system and the fusion of the leading Morpho and Printrak biometric identification technologies. Not only will CBI's new system handle ten-prints and latent, including lights–out processing with unrivalled speed and accuracy, but also matching of palm prints, mobile two-finger searches, as well as the collection and storage of mugshots, scars, marks and tattoos. The system's efficient processing of electronic biometric records will help CBI shift toward a fully paperless background check operation.