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What is the next ID project?

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

This is the question being asked by Jeremy Grant, senior vice president and identity solutions analyst at the Stanford Group Company. There are many projects underway, Real ID, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program, the Passport Card, the DOD’s Automated Biometric Identification System, are just a few.

The Airport Credential Interoperability Specification may be one new opportunity but what else is on the horizon? Grants say there may be a lull until a new administration comes in and lays out new priorities.

What do you think? Email our editors and let them know. [end] 

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