SAIC, U Kent in biometric colaboration
SAIC and the University of Kent will collaborate on addressing the needs of the international biometrics market.
The University of Kent and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) will collaborate on biometrics and identity management projects. The two organizations used the occasion of the U.K. Trade & Investment Ministry (UKTI)-sponsoredTrade Force Mission reception, which was held in Washington, D.C. two weeks ago, to sign a letter of intent describing the collaboration. UKTI introduced the two organizations to each other at the November 2006 Science for Security mission and has supported their collaboration over the past eight months.
The collaboration will involve SAIC and the university working to address the needs of the international biometrics market. The benefits for SAIC include direct interaction through UKBI (United Kingdom Biometrics Institute —a University of Kent initiative) with the U.K. academic research base, industry, government agencies, and the European biometrics community.
Professor Michael Fairhurst, head of the Department of Electronics at the University of Kent and a co-founder of UKBI, said: “This is extremely good news for the University, but it also demonstrates the enormous value of UKBI in stimulating opportunities to extend the reach of the established strengths of the UK biometrics community.”
