Monday, April 9, 2012

Physical Access Control - Biometrics in the Military

DoD to use iris scans, fingerprints for building security (Federal News Radio)
The Defense Department is preparing two large scale tests to prove whether biometrics can control who enters military facilities without impeding the flow of traffic.

For more than a decade, DoD has used fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition technology to detect terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq and in other countries. But as an approach to physical access, the military has only in a limited way put their Common Access Cards (CACs) with biometric data on them to full use.
A good survey of modalities and applications, many of which are already in use by state and local public sector facilities and in the private sector.

See Also: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force base rolls out new identification system