Pentagon Creates New Post to Manage Biometric Efforts

By Jason Sherman / October 5, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England has directed the creation of a new Pentagon post to oversee the U.S. military's biometric programs and better coordinate the development and fielding of technologies used to identify both friendly forces and adversaries using fingerprints, DNA samples, palm prints, voice sounds and iris patterns. The new position action, spelled out in an Oct. 4 memo from England to Pentagon leaders, raises the profile of biometric technology efforts across the defense bureaucracy as U.S. troops are...

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