Combined Multi-Biometric Service System

To address the PEO Enterprise Information Systems need for a solution that provides real-time secure Identity Management of Biometric Data across the Global Information Grid (GIG), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Combined Multi-BIOmetric Service (CMBIOS) system. The proposed system is based on unique integration of biometric technologies with CMBIOS service-oriented architecture framework, platform-independent client software, and a hypercompression technique to transfer large files over low-bandwidth communication links, which will enable the system to share biometric data across the GIG in real time. As a result, CMBIOS allows the warfighter to capture, disseminate, and exploit biometric data in real time, and communicate at the lower tactical level as reliably as at the strategic level. In Phase I, POC will demonstrate feasibility of CMBIOS by assembling and testing a proof-of-concept prototype, and determine a logical data model and compression scheme to transfer large files through low-bandwidth links. We will prepare and deliver system design specifications of the approach to be used in Phase II for development of the prototype system. In Phase II, POC plans to develop a technology readiness level (TRL) 4-5 CMBIOS that will be ready for initial testing for potential transition to related programs.