All DHS employees required to carry biometric card
May 30, 2013 5:56:41 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on May 30, 2013 5:56:41 GMT -5
Mark of the Beast phase one….Homeland Security to require all employees to carry biometric smartcard 
The Homeland Security Department is buying $100 million worth of services to issue staff at all agencies smartcards with iris and facial recognition capabilities.
Late Friday, DHS opened the bidding process for a decade-long project to upgrade personnel identification cards that are used to access federal buildings and networks. Following the September 2001 terrorist attacks, Homeland Security Presidential Directive–12, or HSPD-12, mandated biometric IDs for employees governmentwide. But many workers, including 82 percent of DHS computer users, flash the credentials at guards, rather than digital readers, largely because the cards’ electronic components haven’t been activated, according to internal audits.
read more:
m.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2013/05/dhs-kicks-1-billion-employee-id-project/63719/
The Homeland Security Department is buying $100 million worth of services to issue staff at all agencies smartcards with iris and facial recognition capabilities.
Late Friday, DHS opened the bidding process for a decade-long project to upgrade personnel identification cards that are used to access federal buildings and networks. Following the September 2001 terrorist attacks, Homeland Security Presidential Directive–12, or HSPD-12, mandated biometric IDs for employees governmentwide. But many workers, including 82 percent of DHS computer users, flash the credentials at guards, rather than digital readers, largely because the cards’ electronic components haven’t been activated, according to internal audits.
read more:
m.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2013/05/dhs-kicks-1-billion-employee-id-project/63719/
