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ARUN VEMURY: So biometric technologies are
changing quickly.

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We're seeing a tremendous amount of
innovation in private industry,

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which is providing security benefits but
also greater speed, flexibility,

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and convenience in day-to-day operations.

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JOHN WAGNER: Within Homeland Security ...
we are the biggest and most consistent

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user of the existing biometrics.

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For Customs and Border Protection, we
operate all the ports of entry in
the United States.

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A lot of diverse different environments,
land border, sea ports, airports,

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small boats, general aviation, pedestrians
trucks, cars all kinds of things.

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ARUN: Recognizing the common interest
between CBP, TSA, and other DHS components

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DHS Science and Technology created a new
approach, which we call the
Biometrics Rally.

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MARY HASKETT: DHS is running a biometric
tech rally ...

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where 12 vendors were invited to set up
their stuff and let it be tested by

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individuals and then we get the
test data back.

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Getting test data from an independent
source is really, really difficult and
really, really expensive.

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It's easy to test software like if you're
Apple but ... getting a large number of
tests subjects to come in

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and go through your system is actually
very difficult, so this is wonderful
for us.

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ARUN: We're testing some of these
technologies in a more realistic scenario,

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largely because there can be a big
difference between claims of performance
and real world tested performance.

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MELISSA CONLEY: Third party verification
is like gold.

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I mean ... S&T is doing all the legwork for
us to make sure that these algorithms

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and these technologies and these companies
meet certain threshold so that we can go

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possibly straight into a procurement or
at least streamline our procurement
process.

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PAUL HUNTER: The work that's going on here
in iris and face, we're looking to adopt

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that kind of technology in our own
operations.

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I think what's happening here is going to
take a lot of pressure off the components.

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WAGNER: I wish we would have used this
process more often ...

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and looked at a full evaluation based on
you know clear requirements that we've

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set and then challenge out to the
industry to help us solve these types
of problems

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You know we cannot take the typical
government approach of building things

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in a stove pipe and building things
independently.

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ARUN: Of course, collaboration is a
two way street.

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DHS S&T and DHS components receive value
by seeing, measuring, testing different
aspects of performance of these systems.

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We create value with our industry partners
by sharing the data back with them

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so that they have a chance to improve the
technologies, to refine them, and hopefully
bring these products to market faster.

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GARY MCDONALD: So we get we get the
actual reports from DHS
Science and Technology...

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Here we know we're going to get the
honest feedback, it failed here,

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it was good here and we can then take it
back to the laboratory and then we can
make the swift changes.

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SARO SARAVANAN: And you know an event
like this will help us get technologies
quicker to market.

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And you know that is really fantastic for
a government to be in the business of
enabling innovation.

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ARUN: By default, we use aliases to identify
the company names and company products.

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Because we want to allow the company to
protect their intellectual property and
not diminish their brands.

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What we wanted to do was encourage
innovation but not penalize them for
taking risks.

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I feel like over the 13 years that I've
been at TSA this is one of the first
technology rallies that has offered a...

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a diverse suite of capabilities for us
to look at in one swoop.

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It's definitely special and unique.

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