New Biometric Standards Facilitate Exchange of Biometrics, Facilitate Biometrically Enabled Drivers’ Licenses and International Travel Documents

Biometric Services International, LLC (BSI) Releases Latest Summary of Published and Emerging Biometric Standards

Morgantown, WV – Biometric Services International (BSI) today announced the availability of its latest update of published and emerging biometric standards. Seven new and/or updated standards were published since the last update issued in August 2008, bringing the total number of published standards to eighty (80).1 The report details these, along with another 80+ emerging standards currently under consideration.

The exchange of fingerprint, palm print and iris data among Federal, State and Local authorities is enhanced by a CJIS2 Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification; a new ICAO3 document defines technical specifications for travel documents, including crew member certificates; and a new ISO document that establishes the design format and data content of ISO-compliant drivers’ licenses are among the many new standards covered in this report. Both published and emerging standards reports can be downloaded at http://www.biometricsinternational.org and http://www.nationalbiometric.org.

About Biometric Services International
Biometric Services International, LLC (BSI), located in Morgantown, West Virginia, is a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of NBSP and is the only laboratory exclusively focused on biometrics, to achieve the coveted ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation for testing. BSI’s application and acquisition services address critical biometric deployment considerations. These services include requirements definition; articulation of program goals and objectives, vulnerability assessments, application impact studies, life-cycle cost analyses and in privacy impact assessments, to name a few.

About National Biometric Security Project (NBSP)
The original National Biometric Security Project has evolved into the NBSP Enterprise, an organization comprised of three operating components: Biometric Services International, LLC; AR Technologies, Inc and ARServices, LLC. All are focused on the overall NBSP mission of accelerating the deployment of biometric technologies to enhance national defense and security, as well as to meet the need for increased protection against identity theft and fraud. NBSP is IS0 9001 Certified [Quality Management Systems Requirements] and as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, it is able to assure a technology-neutral, vendor-independent posture and focus on user requirements.

For more information on BSI please contact Valerie Evanoff at venanoff@nationalbiometric.org

For more information on NBSP please contact Russ Ryan at rryan@nationalbiometric.org

1 Net current number of published standards including those that were withdrawn since the last report
2 Criminal Justice Information Services
3 International Civil Aviation Organization