L-1 receives $1.7 million to bring image analytics to FAMS
Air marshals look to improve their database system; L-1 takes a break from efforts to acquire ComnetiX; company also reports strong sales of its Identix touchprint readers
More good news for Stamford, Connecticut based L-1 Identity Solutions. Readers will recall that the company is currently in heated negotiations to purchase ComnetiX, but in the meantime life (and contracting) must go on, and so the company announced late last week that it had received a $1.7 million contract with the DHS to develop facial recognition technology for the FAMS Tactical Information Sharing System (TISS). TISS, a database system that stores information, including photos, taken from Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) investigations, has recently decided to incorporate image analytics technology, and so L-1 will lend a hand with its own facial recognition software. “With decades of experience in facial recognition, and the majority of the facial recognition market share today, L-1 Identity Solutions is a natural choice for the program,” remarked L-1’s indefagitable CEO Robert LaPenta.
In other related news, L-1 also announced that it had received several large purchase orders for the Identix TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 4100 Slap & Roll Live Scan with an aggregate value of over $4 million. The orders were received from various international customers and federal agencies of the United States Government.
-read more in this company news release
