The software and engineering support contracts for BAT will be combined, and the Army hopes to have a request for proposal out this fall for a new contract, Vann-Olejasz said. The software for the BAT kits is maintained by Leidos, and ManTech International supplies the field engineering support. The service also has deployed more than 1,500 Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) kits-which typically consist of a ruggedized laptop computer and peripheral devices such as cameras, fingerprint scanners, and in some cases palm print scanners carried in a pelican case-that are typically used at bases to enroll and verify the identities of people, such as local personnel. SEEK II handheld multimodal biometrics collection device. The HIIDE devices were supplied by Morpho, part of France’s Safran Group. The Army over the years had also purchased thousands of HIIDE IV handheld multimodal collection devices, but these systems have reached obsolescence and are being “sun-setted” - they won’t be retained or sustained, Vann-Olejasz said. The Army has purchased more than 5,000 Cross Match Technologies-supplied SEEK II handheld multimodal biometric collection devices that its soldiers have used for disconnected operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Sandy Vann-Olejasz, project manager for DoD Biometrics, told Defense Daily in an Aug. The Army plans to leverage the investments it has already made in tactical collection devices, turn them into programs of record so they become enduring capabilities, and sustain them until “we’re ready to make an investment in a future capability,” Col.
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A year ago, the Army had established notional plans for a new generation of tactical biometric collection devices and a path to significantly upgrade to the Defense Department’s authoritative biometrics database once the current system approaches obsolescence in a few years.īut with resources tightening, the service is planning new acquisition strategies around sustaining existing capabilities, according to an Army official.
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