Task Force: Biometrics 'Vitally Important' to U.S. Military, but 'Underappreciated'

By Jason Sherman / April 11, 2007 at 5:00 AM
An influential Pentagon advisory panel has recommended an array of organizational changes, technology investments and policy reviews to strengthen U.S. military identity verification capabilities of both friendly and enemy forces using biometric technologies. The Defense Science Board task force on defense biometrics programs, in a 168-page report, argues that the "importance of biometrics to DOD is great now, and growing" and "is vitally important to the success" of many U.S. military missions. However, "the importance of identify management and the...

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