Re: FBI Preps Award for Biometric Database - New York Times

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us [bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us]
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Subject: Re: FBI Preps Award for Biometric Database - New York Times

Dave

Perhaps for I.P.

It seems to me that IBM is a natural for this -- they have special expertise from
doing a similar project in a major Teutonic European Country in the 1930's.


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> February 5, 2008
> FBI Preps Award for Biometric Database
>
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> Filed at 10:37 a.m. ET
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and IBM are vying
> for a multibillion-dollar contract to build a database for
> fingerprints and other biometric information that the FBI is set to
> award this week.
>
> Lockheed Martin Corp. built and maintains the FBI's current 10-
> fingerprint database and some analysts consider the nation's largest
> defense contractor the favorite to win the Next Generation
> Identification system contract mainly due to its incumbent status.
>
> But because the new system is expected to include other identifiers,
> including palm prints, iris scans and facial recognition, the teams
> led by Northrop Grumman Corp. and International Business Machines
> Corp. remain strong contenders, said Stanford Group Co. analyst Jeremy
> Grant. Northrop's team includes BearingPoint Inc., General Dynamics
> Corp. and Raytheon Co.
>
> An FBI spokesman on Tuesday said the contract is expected to be
> awarded this week but would not disclose its financial or other terms.
>
> The deal is viewed as a major upgrade to the FBI's Integrated
> Automated Fingerprint Identification System and should help the agency
> more easily share data supporting anti-terrorism efforts with domestic
> government offices and international partners. It will include data on
> known criminals and terrorists, as well as information on foreign
> visitors to the U.S. whose fingerprints and digital photographs were
> collected under a separate Department of Homeland Security program
> that monitors people entering the U.S. via air, land and sea.
>
> Privacy advocates, however, say Congress must ensure that the FBI
> system will not infringe on citizens' rights before the government
> spends more than a billion dollars on it.
>
> ''This system is not ready for prime time,'' said Marc Rotenberg,
> executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
> ''Congress must ask tough questions about the impact on the privacy
> rights of Americans.''
>
>
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