Precise Biometrics wins US$6m US Government order

08 July 2009

Precise Biometrics has been awarded an order worth more than US$6.1 million to supply fingerprint readers and software to the US Government. The order is the next step in the company’s continued deployment of Precise Match-on-Card in multiple agencies. Delivery will start immediately and the order will be delivered and invoiced before end of 2009.

The solution will be used by US Government security and cyber defense programs to prevent hostile infiltration of government systems within critical infrastructure. System breaches from attackers are prevented by requiring localized and user-dependent security, which is introduced by biometric Match-on-Card authentication.

Match-on-Card provides enables storing and matching of fingerprint information on a smart card in order to establish the presence of an individual. As the fingerprint information does not leave the card, there is no need for a database and the cardholder’s integrity is preserved. The Match-on-Card technology is integrated with the Government Employee ID badges.

Precise Biometrics claims to have more than 20 million deployed card licenses and close to 100 million contracted licenses for its Match-on-Card technology today.