The USA’s General Services Administration (GSA) has approved several biometrics software products from Aware Inc, for use in Personal Identity Verification (PIV) solutions for federal employees and contractors.

Aware managed to gain approval for products in five categories: Fingerprint Capture Station, Facial Image Capture Middleware, Facial Image Capture Station (Physical), Template Generator, and Template Matcher.

The approval is important because the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has directed federal agencies to purchase only products and services from the GSA Approved Products List for the implementation of their PIV solutions.

According to David Benini, Aware’s director of product marketing: “The GSA product evaluation program defines more than twenty product and service categories and maintains a list of products approved for each category, which government agencies and integrators can then

reference to assemble a comprehensive solution.”

More information on GSA’s FIPS 201 Evaluation Program and the GSA’s Approved FIPS 201 Products and Services List can be found online at: http://fips201ep.cio.gov. More information about Aware’s biometric software product offerings for PIV is available online at http://www.aware.com/piv

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