RFIDNews | Unisys Wins RFID Passport Contract

Monday, January 28, 2008

Unisys Corp. said Monday that it received a contract worth at least $37.2 million to work on a system that will allow for RFID-based passports, The Philadelphia Business Journal reported earlier.

The Blue Bell, Pa., company said the work is for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. In addition to reading RFID passports, the system would take pictures of drivers, their vehicles and their license plate numbers, Unisys said, and it would quickly check the information against watch lists.

After long delays, Algeria launches biometric passports

After a nearly three-year delay, the Algerian government has finally launched its biometric passport program.

Magharebia reports that the biometric passports, which contain a contactless smart card chip that holds a digitized photo, fingerprints and signature, were supposed to be released in 2009. But the documents were delayed due to complexities with the operation of the project and the need to thoroughly research and analyze other countries’ experiences with biometric passports.

State Department pilots online passport card applications

As part of the U.S. Department of State’s initiative to simplify and streamline customer service interactions and processes, the Office of Passport Services has started a 90-day pilot program for online passport card applications.

Unisys opens border crossing system in El Paso

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is working together with Unisys Corp. on a Land Border Integration (LBI) project to deploy one of the first pedestrian border crossings in El Paso, Texas.

Accenture wins $71M contract from DHS

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to add biometric modalities and other enhancements to the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT uses digital fingerprints and photographs. A pilot program included in the contract will test facial and iris voluntary identification enrollment and matching.

Biometrics, smart cards for physical access at LA-area airports

The Los Angeles World Airports, which oversees airport operations for the city of Los Angeles, has awarded a contract modification to Unisys to upgrade its access control and alarm monitoring system that is used to identify the 45,000 airport employees, contractors, police and others who work at the organization’s three airports.

Updated: Passport image on iPad passes border security

CBP denies report

A Canadian man uses a scanned image of his passport from his iPad to get past Customer and Border Protection officials, according to a report from the AP.

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Unisys Wins RFID Passport Contract