Silicon Trust meets Egyptian government

Members of the Silicon Trust met with representatives of the Egyptian government’s Ministry of State for Administrative Development led by Tarek Saad Badr, program director, National Databases Program at the Cardex trade show in Cairo last week.

Five suppliers win UK ID card contracts

Five suppliers to deliver the UK’s National Identity Scheme (NIS)

3M-SPSL wins critical worker ID card deal

3M-SPSL has been appointed to manufacture and supply UK ID cards for critical workers

Precise wins another Middle East deal

Precise Biometrics has won an order for hardware in the Middle East valued at SEK 2.3 million. The deal is part of a larger order comprising both hardware and Precise Match-on-Card licenses.

Datacard printer used in Illinois scheme

L-1 Identity Solutions has selected Datacard’s SP75 Plus card printer for use in the state-wide Illinois driving licence programmes.

ePassports get LED video display

Samsung SDI and Bundesdruckerei demonstrate slimline LED video display in ePassport

Cogent completes Maximus acquisition

Cogent Systems completes the acquisition of MAXIMUS Security Solutions Division

UK ID card set up costs to rise

IPS says overall UK ID card scheme costs will fall but set up costs will rise

Gemalto secures Mexican deal

Gemalto has secured a new contract to supply eDriving licences to three additional Mexican states, in cooperation with its local partner, Cosmocolor.

Digimarc modernizes New Mexico driving licenses

New Mexico’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) has begun issuing licenses using a new, highly secure system

German printer wins Slovak ID card deal

Slovakia has commissioned German security printer Bundesdruckerei to produce ID documents

Bahrain concludes GCC project phase

Bahrain’s cabinet affairs minister, Shaikh Ahmed Bin Attiyetallah al Khalifa, has confirmed that the initial phase of the country’s GCC smart card project has been completed.

Unisys scoops TWIC deal

Unisys has won a deal to design and manage a smart card and biometric-based ID and access control system at the Port of Los Angeles.

Bell gets GSA stamp of approval

Bell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 Card & Application Management solution is now on the GSA Approved Products List in recognition of its compliance with the FIPS 201: Electronic personalization standard.

Taiwan selects HP to enable ePassports

Taiwan selects HP to roll out ePassports to 23 million Taiwanese citizens

LaserCard scoops green card deal

LaserCard has received a US$170,000 purchase order to supply a card encoding system for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ‘green card’ Permanent Resident Card Program.

Weather-proof sensors integrated into TWIC Reader

Lumidigm fingerprint sensor integrated into TWIC credential reader

Photo-Me moves into biometric data capture space

Photo-Me Group has announced it will turn its focus onto biometric image capture

USA rules on land and sea travel documentation

DHS and DOS announce final rule for WHTI land and sea

Burundi opts for Zetes

Zetes has won a contract to supply equipment and specialised services for the biometric and biographic enrolment and card production systems to identify Burundi’s 58,000 civil servants.