Solicitation Number:

NIST-SpecialNotice-08-02

Notice Type:

Special Notice

Synopsis:

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are working on
the following technologies. For further information, contact the: National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
2200, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899; Fax: 301-975-3482. This is not an announcement of a contract action or a grant.


Description: NIST is conducting the following research on enabling the adoption and furthering the development of the NIST Multimodal Biometric Application Resource Kit (MBARK) software library.

(i) Methods, technologies, documentation, and protocols to increase the usability of MBARK from a software development perspective.

(ii) Development of portable multimodal biometric data collection capabilities in support of testing and evaluation activities for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Next Generation Identification (NGI) program.

More information about MBARK can be found at http://mbark.nist.gov .

Contracting Office Address:

100 Bureau Drive, Building 301, Room B129, Mail Stop 1640
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-1640

Place of Performance:

N/A

United States

Primary Point of Contact.: