Special Operations Command, Army, eye biometrics to authenticate identities of deployed warfighters
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – A Request for Information (RFI) on methods of continuously authenticating user identity by a person’s distinctive characteristics using software-based biometrics or behavioral profiling is being sought by the Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Huachuca Division, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Continue reading original article
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20 Nov. 2018 -- Meanwhile, under a continuing Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), the U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Program Executive Office (PEO) for Special Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Exploitation (PEO-SRSE) — a component of USSCOM Special Operations Forces Acquisitions, Technology & Logistics (SOF AT&L-SR) — has requested “White Papers” from the biometrics industry for a biometric product line of “technologies to collect, analyze, and distribute various physical parameters that can be used to identify personnel.”
Both actions to authenticate the identities of warfighters are connected, though you wouldn’t necessarily understand the connection until both the RFI and the “White Paper” are viewed in the perspective and context of The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations 2025-2040 strategy document.
Fort Huachuca is headquarters of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM)/9th Army Signal Command. It’s also headquarters of the Army Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) and Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and Electronic Proving Ground (EPG), as well as the Joint Interoperability Certifier and the only non-Service Operational Test Agency for Information Technology (IT)/National Security Systems.
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