BEST

Biometrics Exploitation Science & Technology

Summary

The Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology (BEST) Program seeks to significantly advance the state-of-the-science for biometrics technologies. The overarching goals for the program are:

  1. To significantly advance the Intelligence Community's (IC) ability to achieve high-confidence match performance, even when the features are derived from non-ideal data
  2. To significantly relax the constraints currently required to acquire high fidelity biometric signatures

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Contact Information

Program Manager

Main Office

Related Program(s)

Solicitation Status

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)
CLOSED

Release Date

March 18, 2009

Question Period

March 19, 2009

Proposal Due Date

May 5, 2005