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Last Updated: | Fact Sheets

Snapshot: S&T Tests Face, Iris Systems at Biometric Tech Rally

Balancing speed and security at checkpoints, like airports, is essential to ensuring safe, reliable travel. Many of these checkpoints are increasingly using biometric technology to improve speed and reliability. While recent improvements in biometrics have lowered failure to match rates, many systems fail to quickly acquire biometric information in the first place.DHS S&T's first Biometric Technology Rally  aimed to eliminate these obstacles by testing face and face/iris recognition systems.

Last Updated: | Testimony

Written testimony of CBP Commissioner for a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing titled “Border Security, Commerce and Travel: Commissioner McAleenan’s Vision for the Future of CBP”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan addresses CBP’s ongoing efforts to keep the nation safe and his priority strategies for enhancing those efforts.