SBIR-STTR Award

The development of a compact, handheld portable biometric system is proposed. The effort shall significantly leverage on-going efforts to develop a multimodal biometric device as a commercial product, while incorporating current and anticipated state-of-the-art technologies to meet Navys specific application requirements and specifications derived from the SIMON project.

Benefit:
Leveraging of on-going efforts to meet DoD needs could lead to significant coast saving and shorten the development life cycle. Significant demand for such capability exists in the civilian market both for law enforcement and commercially for a broad variety of applications in biometric verification. Availability as a commercial product would lead to affordability for DoD use as well as sustainability of the device in maintenance and upgrades.

Keywords:
Biometrics, Biometrics, Fingerprint Recognition, Voice Recognition, Handheld Computer, Facial Recognition, iris recognition

The objective of this Phase II project is to implement the design for a portable multimodal biometric device design developed under the Phase I effort with further refinements for insertion into the Navy’s Identity Dominance System (IDS) program. The implementation has been designed to meet all the Key Performance Parameters and Key System Attributes for the AN/PYX-1 specified for IDS insertion, including plan for incorporation of digital forensics (DOMEX) capabilities. The design is based on the extensive use of commercial off-the-shelf components innovatively integrated for handheld portability and user friendliness as well as reliability and affordability. The Phase II effort has been structured to meet the IDS schedule for programmatic decisions including Critical Design Review (CRR), Test Readiness Review (TRR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR). Deliverables include production representative prototypes at the end of the Base Program, Option I and Option II phases. The development effort will involve significant interaction with the IDS program office to assure that the program objectives and schedule are met, and documents to support test and production readiness assessments.

Keywords:
Afis, Afis, Facial Images, Iris Identification System, Multimodality Biometrics, Automated Fingerprint Identification System, Digital Forensics