Aware supplies software for PIV system

21 July 2010

Aware has announced it has supplied client- and server-based software products for the PIV employee credentialing system of a large US federal government agency.  

The software is part of a solution deployed by ICF International subsidiary Jacob & Sundstrom.  The system is used to provide enterprise-wide enrolment of federal employees and centralised data structuring and workflow for issuance of PIV credentials.

Aware says its Universal Registration Client (URC) is a software application used to perform assisted enrolment of biographic data, facial images, fingerprints, identity documents, and digital written signatures.  In the agency system, this enrolment data is forwarded to Aware’s Biometric Services Platform (BioSP), which aggregates, stores, processes, and disseminatea the enrolled data for purposes such as background checks and PIV card personalisation.  According to Aware, the combination of URC and BioSP provide a platform of GSA-approved software components that fulfil the biometric functionality requirements of their PIV system.    

“Aware offers a broad biometric software platform that uses modular building blocks of biometric functionality,” says David Simonetti, vice president for ICF International. “We needed GSA-approved biometric software that fulfilled PIV mandates and yet could be quickly customised and deployed in a way that accommodated our customer’s legacy systems and specific workflow requirements. The Aware solution also addresses capture hardware obsolescence risks that can impact system maintenance costs going forward.”

URC is a biometric enrolment application that is first used to search the agency’s identity management system (IDMS) for pre-enrolled biographic data records.  It uses Aware’s biometric SDKs to perform autocapture of facial images and fingerprints and amend these records with the images and fingerprint minutiae templates along with ‘I9’ identity document scans and digital written signatures.  

According to Aware, BioSP provides configuration and deployment management of the URC enrolment application, and offers PIV card-based password access control to the application. Upon completion of an enrolment, URC submits the enrolment data record with images, data, and fingerprint templates securely to BioSP, which – via programmable workflow – performs a host of data processing tasks as required by the system.  BioSP stores the image data and integrates with agency’s IDMS to associate biometric data with identities stored there.  It also forwards PIV-compliant fingerprint template objects to the IDMS for card personalisation.