Soldier-Borne Biometric Authentication System

Ultra-Scan proposes to develop a soldier-borne bioassurance system that facilitates identity and liveness sensing through ultra low cost instrumentation. The new technology will result in a disposable, physically small, low power, high accuracy bioassurance patch capable of deployment for the Army’s Future Force Warrior. It will enable persistent authentication of the soldier’s identity to the wearable computer system without requiring any unique actions outside of normal mission requirements. Real-time continuous liveness testing and operation regardless of whether the soldier is equipped with nuclear, biological, or chemical protective equipment will be part of the basic operational requirements of the system which will provide full transparency. Combining this low cost bioassurance technology and activating it through the use of a highly accurate traditional multimodal biometric system already developed and successfully commercialized by Ultra-Scan for the Army will result in a system with significant reductions to false match and false non-match occurrences. Evaluation will be performed under conditions representative of combat, with harsh environmental conditions. This will result in the full development and delivery to the Army, a complete turnkey bioassurance system with all necessary hardware, software, and a soldier-worn computer simulator for training and demonstration, ready for seamless system integration and deployment.