Implementing
biometrics-based technologies has increased in recent years and is helping to
protect the nation and multi-national enterprises by keeping people and assets
more secure. New, lightweight,
multimodal devices help make distinguishing between an insurgent and a civilian
in a war environment easier.
Two such technologies,
a laptop-based system deployed as the Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT), and
the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE), capture
fingerprint, iris and facial data. The BAT collects this biometric data and
stores it on a central server in a secure network. Currently, there are over 1,000 active BATs in Iraq.