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My name is

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Arun Vemury with the DHS Science &
Technology Directorate.

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I work in the Biometric
and Identity Technology Center.

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My responsibility is to work
as an honest broker for how biometric

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and identity technologies work.

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We help figure out where the technologies
work well,

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where they don't work well,
and then help find approaches to help

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close the gap so that these technologies
can be more effective and better

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support DHS operations
and help DHS fulfill its missions.

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DHS, in most of its missions, 
has to figure out who people are.

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Who is coming into the United States?
who is boarding a plane?

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Who is getting access to critical
infrastructure or secure spaces?

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And there are really different ways
to do that.

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One of them is through biometrics. Things
like your fingerprints, face photo,

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your iris images or your voice.

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But in the future,
we're going to see more of these digital

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credentials to help support
both in-person and online transactions.

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The thing I enjoy the most about the work? 
Probably a couple of things.

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We have really hard problems to work
on, so it's really intellectually

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challenging to figure out how to solve
some of these really tough problems.

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And we honestly have an amazing team
of professionals and scientists

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who we get to work with.

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It's really fulfilling to work

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with these smart people working on these
hard problems to protect the homeland.

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We're not only doing this
to earn a paycheck, it's

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about helping our families,
our friends, our communities.

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I graduated college right around 9/11.

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As soon as it happened,
I was like, do I enlist?

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You know, is this what I do?

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And I realized, you know what?

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I have a lot of technical and scientific
expertise. A lot of interests.

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Maybe there's a different way
for me to serve.

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So this is how I serve.