Parsons has secured a technical direction letter from the U.S. Army valued at $1.9 million for the acquisition of biometric mobile and static collection devices, including peripherals and software, in support of the Next Generation Biometrics Collection Capability, dubbed NXGBCC.
The Army said Tuesday under the TDL, which runs through April 2025, the devices will be integrated into the Ares Gateway Transaction Manager, or AGTM, to collect, store, match and share fingerprint, facial, iris and voice biometric modalities.
The AGTM will operate on a government-provided Amazon Web Services Impact Level 5 Gov-Cloud. The cloud service submits collected data to the Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System. After the system evaluates the biometrics data, it will return matches to the AGTM and the collection device.
The NXGBCC is expected to be field-ready and provide soldiers with identity information in real-time by 2025.
The project manager for terrestrial sensors and the product manager for biometrics oversee the NXGBCC and DOD ABIS programs.
Lareina Adams, project manager of terrestrial sensors, said, “The NXGBCC searches a given biometric submission against 30 million encounters and more than 13 million identities in DOD ABIS, as well as against the largest unsolved latent fingerprint file in the government.”