biometrics identity management agency biometrics report, fy11

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1 Directors Message

3 About the BIMA

3 Missio

3 Visio

4 Identify, Enable, Protect

4 A Word of Thaks toOur Stakeholders

4 Executive Aget (EA) adExecutive Maager (EM) forDoD Biometrics

6 Strategic Focus

9 Major Accomplishments FY11

9 Identify the Individual

9 DoD ABIS Ups the Ate

11 Moder Architecture

11 Watchig for Bad Guys

13 Coformity

14 Biometrics ad Foresics:A Double Threat

14 Enable the Mission

14 Supportig the Warfighter

18 Techology: Leaig Forward

18 Iteroperability

18 The Biometrics Triad

21 COCOM Egagemet

22 BITMAP

24 Requiremets Maagemet

27 Collaboratio With Academia

29 Protect Information,Identities, People

29 Measurig Success29 Privacy

30 DoD Idetity Assurace

33 Way Ahead

33 The DoD ABIS

33 EA ad EM

33 Iteroperability

33 Forward-Lookig Architecture

35 Privacy: A High Priority

36 Conclusion

36 Edurig Capability ad

Program of Record

37 Acronyms

INSIDE STORIES7 Accuracy is Everythig

12 Higher Stadards

15 The Oe-Two Puch

19 Idetity Domiators

23 The Stregth i Sharig

26 Mystery Solvers

34 High Seas Success

SUCCESS STORIES11 Jailbreak

18 Quick Hits

21 Lookig South

22 Securig the Border

24 The Super Hit

31 The Turba Bomber

TABLE OF COnTEnTS

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To say that Fiscal Year 2011 has bee a positive

ad excitig oe for the Biometrics Idetity

Maagemet Agecy (BIMA) would be a

uderstatemet I my first year as Director, the

BIMA cotiued to play a key role i empowerig

Departmet of Defese (DoD) Biometrics Our

cetral biometric data repository, the DoD

Automated Biometric Idetificatio System (DoD

ABIS), has steadily icreased i the umber

of records while maitaiig its speed ad

resposiveess for the beefit of the DoD, our

iteragecy parters ad iteratioal allies

Our pla for full iteroperability with the

Departmet of Homelad Security (DHS) is o

schedule, projected for late 2012 Memorada

of Agreemet ad Cooperatio with other

orgaizatios durig the fiscal year demostrated

that the BIMA possesses uique, multimodal

biometric datasets ad expertise that o oe else

has O nov 18, 2011, we placed the fial steel

beam atop our ew Biometrics Techology Ceter

i Clarksburg, WVa, which will be ready for

occupatio i FY14 Th is amazig facility, which

we will share with the FBIs Biometric Ceter

of Excellece, reflects the DoD commitmet to

joitess i our efforts to secure the atio

I this war that weve bee coductig for the l as

decade, as i other wars, specialized capabilities

have evolved to support the fight Biometrics is

oe of them Biometrics let us idetify whom we

eed to deal with o the battlefield, ad help us

take those idividuals off the battlefield

But thats ot the oly role for biometrics, which

will edure i terms of the DoDs busiess

operatios Theres a icreasig demad

broadly, ot just i the DoD to kow who a

idividual is whos askig for certai privileges,

or for access to certai services Biometrics offe

a tool that eables us to appropriately provide

that access with assurace Ad thats why

biometrics has to edure as a capability We

caot put it o a shelf ad brig it back out the

ext time we go to war

It is true that, at a time whe improvemets i

biometrics techologies ad capabilities are

acceleratig, a period of fiscal austerity looms

This will be felt throughout the DoD ad the etire

Uited States govermet As decisio makers

reshape the future of may programs, I believe

that biometrics will remai a edurig capability

ad potetially become a program of record

I look forward to the challeges ad

achievemets of the comig year Please joi m

i my optimism about the future of our biometric

work, ad i my gratitude to all i the biometrics

commuity who safeguard our atioal security

Sicerely,

Dr Thomas Killio

BIOMETRICS IDEnTITY MAnAGEMEnT AGEn

DIRECTORS MESSAGE

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US Soldiers with Alpha Compay, 1st Battalio, 17thIfatry Regimet use a Hadheld Iteragecy IdetityDetectio Equipmet (HIIDE) biometrics device to recordiformatio about a Afgha ma i Badula Qulp, Helmadprovice, Afghaista, Feb 12, 2010 The HIIDE is amultimodal biometric system that collects ad comparesfigerprits, iris scas ad facial photos agaist aiterally dowloaded biometric watchlist The Soldiers areparticipatig i Operatio Helmad Spider (US Air Forcephoto by TSgt Efre Lopez/Released)


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BIOMETRICS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AGENC

ABOUT THE BIMA

MISSION:

The BIMA leads DoD activities to program, coordiate, itegrate ad sychroize biometrics

techologies ad capabilities, ad to operate ad maitai the DoD authoritative biometrics

database i support of the natioal Security Strategy

VISION:

Protect the atio through the employmet of biometrics capabilities

Biometrics are measurable physical ad behavioral characteristics that eable the

establishmet ad verificatio of a idividuals idetity They iclude:

Fingerprint Irisrecognition

Facialrecognition Palmprint

Biometrics also refers to the process of usig automated methods to recogize a idividual

based o these ad other measurable characteristics Researchers i the field of biometrics

also cotiue to improve the usability ad resposiveess of DnA, as well as behavioral

modalities such as gait, to better establish idetity i specific situatios

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US Army SPC Bejami Dupre, from Blue Tak, 1stPlatoo, Delta Compay, 1st Battalio, 4th IfatryRegimet, uses a Hadheld Iteragecy Idetity DetectioEquipmet (HIIDE) biometrics device to capture biometricdata from a Afgha citize i Mirzaya, Zabul provice,Afghaista, Jue 22, 2010 (US Army photo by SSGWilliam Tremblay/Released)


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BIOMETRICS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AGENCY BIOMETRICS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AGEN

The problem: ANONYMITY

The solutio: BIOMETRICS

Employig biometrics is a three-step process

The first step, Identify, strips adversaries of their

aoymity o battlefields, at border crossigs

ad other trasit poits ad withi the Uited

States The secod,Enable, represets the

may fuctios that US Forces ca carry out

with biometrics, from compilig watchlists of

suspected terrorists to eablig base access for

cleared idividuals The third, Protect, furishes

the payoff of biometrics It aswers the questio

of why theres a eed to i detify ad eable to

protect the warfighter, the advatage, the missio

ad, ultimately, the atio

A WORD OF THANKS TO OUR STAKEHOLDERS

DoD Biometrics stakeholders iclude a wide

variety of groups For example:

Soldiers,Sailors,AirmenorMarinesonthe

groud i places like Iraq ad Afghaista

sed us figerprits ad other biometric data

that the provide a match, or hit, to our

databases ad watchlists

Navycrewsoperatingininternationalwaters

rely o our biometric datas ability to pull the

cloak of aoymity from moder-day pirates

Theintelligenceanalystfusesbiometric

matches with cotextual iformatio to

idetify the eemy

OurpartneragenciesincludetheDepartment

of Justice (DOJ) ad DHS, with whom we

share biometric data to support atioal

security iterests

A key part of the BIMA missio is to better

egage with you, the stakeholder, to aticipate

ad serve your warfightig ad law eforcemet

eeds, ad to eable ad empower your work

EXECUTIVE AGENT (EA) AND EXECUTIVE

MANAGER (EM) FOR DOD BIOMETRICS

I July 2000, Cogress desigated the Secretary

of the Army as the EA for DoD Biometrics,

tasked to lead, cosolidate ad coordiate all

biometrics iformatio assurace programs of

the Departmet of Defese The Director, BIMA,

is the EM for DoD Biometrics

IDEnTIFY, EnABLE, PROTECT DoD BIOMETRICS STRUCTURE

The Pricipal Staff Assistat (PSA), the Assistat Secretary of Defese for Research ad

Egieerig (ASD(R&E)) provides oversight to the EA ad EM for DoD Biometrics, who

support umerous DoD elemets icludig the Joit Staff, Services ad Combatat

Commads (COCOMs); Forward Elemets icludig US Forces Iraq (USF-I) ad US

Forces Afghaista (USFOR-A); ad the Assistat Secretary of the Army for Acquisitio,

Logistics ad Techology (ASA(ALT)), icludig the Program Executive Office Eterprise

Iformatio Systems (PEO EIS) ad the Project Maager (PM) DoD Biometrics The EA ad

EM also support the Office of the Secretary of Defese (OSD) ad the Uder Secretaries of

Defese for Policy, Itelligece ad Persoel ad Readiess


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The agecy leads DoD activities to program ad

sychroize biometrics cocepts, techologies

ad capabilities, ad operates the DoD ABIS, the

departmets authoritative, multimodal biometric

data repository What bega as a suite of

eablig techologies for such eeds as secure

access to military istallatios soo bega

offerig iovative ways to idetify ad track

suspected terrorists I Iraq ad Afghaista,

biometrics have bee called upo to help

couter the problem of Improvised Explosive

Devices (IEDs), tracig figerprits back to

those who make ad detoate IEDs I this way,

biometrics have grow from a quick-reactio

security measure to a edurig capability

STRATEGIC FOCUS

I FY11, the BIMA, operatig withi the Deputy

Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, has cotiued to serve as

a leader i the larger DoD Biometrics Eterprise

The Eterprise cosists of the departmets

Joit, Service ad other parters workig to

itegrate biometrics ito the idetity trasactios

eeded to support military operatios ad

departmetal busiess fuctios The missio of

the Eterprise is to provide edurig biometrics

capabilities to the DoD ad its missio parters,

ad eable idetificatio of idividuals i support

of atioal security iterests Operatig globally,

the Eterprise protects rights ad services for

parters while deyig aoymity to adversaries

The Biometrics Eterprise Strategic Pla (BESP)

sets the directio for the Eterprise through the

pursuit of four goals:

Military Operations Meet the warfightig

biometric eeds of COCOMs, Services ad

Combat Support Agecies with sufficiet

timeliess ad certitude

Business Functions Itegrate

biometrics ito DoD busiess fuctios as

required to icrease efficiecy, effectiveess

ad accuracy

Institutionalization Esure biometrics are

icorporated ito stadard DoD processes

i order to ehace military operatios ad

busiess fuctios

Unity of Effort Coordiate efforts to

achieve uity of purpose for the effective

goverace ad employmet of biometrics-

eabled capabilities ad proactive

egagemet with Joit, iteragecy ad

multiatioal parters ad civilia populatios

The key to what I look at, being the

ABIS manager, is future throughut,

caacity and accuracy, says Gabriel,who also has 23 years of active duty, natioal

Guard ad Reserve service i the US Army

The DoD Automated Biometric Idetificatio

System (DoD ABIS) curretly receives about

130,000 erollmets per moth That teds to

grow every quarter by aother 5,000 to 10,000,

she says So thats how were projectig what

our capacity ad throughput eed to be But

its about quality, too For istace, the DoD

ABIS receives biometric files from a array of

submitters with varyig degrees of accuracy

You hear lots of persoel i the commuity

talk about throughput ad capacity, but the

accuracy is give a dimiished role, Gabriel

says Lookig forward, I wat to make accurac

more of a priority for ABIS tha it has bee So

whether thats better traiig with our persoel

who are i the areas of operatio actually usig

the biometric devices ad systems, to talkig to

the vedors myself to get them to make better

ad more reliable devices, accuracy is a major

goal for the future

CHELEY GABRIEL, BIMAChief, Eterprise Operatios Divisio

Clarksburg, WVa

ACCURACY IS EVERYTHING

Looking forward, I want to make accuracy

more of a riority for ABIS than it has been.


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BIOMETRICS IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AGENC

IDEnTIFYTHE InDIVIDUAL

A threat greater tha the eemy you kow is the

oe you dot The ability to refuse aoymity

to a adversary provides a critical advatage I

FY11, the BIMA reached a ew level i its ability

to collect, match, store, share ad maage

biometric data, executed with speed ad

accuracy The respose back to the warfighter

has resulted i the prosecutio of a wide array of

tactical ad strategic threats

DOD ABIS UPS THE ANTE

FY11 was a bechmark year for the DoD ABIS,

the authoritative repository of DoD biometric

data The BIMA operates ad maitais the

DoD ABIS, ad i FY11 cotiued to share data

with COCOMs, other US govermet agecies

ad iteratioal parters System storage,

biometric erollmets, matches, submitters ad

the overall umber of latet, or aoymous,

submissios all icreased

O July 28, 2011, BIMA operators surpassed six

millio total records stored i the DoD ABIS Search

Core By the ed of FY11, the database received

early 16 millio submissios for the year, a 23

percet icrease over FY10, for a total of 64 millio

submissios from ew ad existig customers

The DoD ABIS offers ever more complete biometric

data through the fusio of multiple modalities

figerprit, iris, palm prit ad facial recogitio

ad ever sleeps, 24/7/365

The power of the database complemets the

power of the BIMAs staff of Biometric Examiers

(BEs) ad Certified Latet Prit Examiers

(CLPEs), who employ highly specialized skill

sets ot easily foud there are fewer tha

1,000 CLPEs worldwide The Usolved Latet

Prit File i the DoD ABIS curretly cotais

more tha 200,000 files of latet prits such

as those recovered from crime scees or

weapos caches Each latet file must be

maually ecoded by a CLPE o the Biometric

Examiatio Services (BES) team prior to

submissio ito the DoD ABIS The database

returs a cadidate list of matches that must be

reviewed by a CLPE to determie if the source of

the prit ca be idetified More tha 1 millio

latet prit comparisos are coducted by the

team each year I additio, almost 6 percet

of all teprit submissios (those with prits

from all 10 figers) are set to the examiers

for compariso, amoutig to about 14,000

comparisos per moth

The Systems Egieerig team maitaied

a 995 percet availability of the DoD ABIS,

maitaiig more tha 300 computers ad more

tha 400 terabytes of storage, ecompassig

more tha 40 idividual databases ad 30

computig odes Beyod the assets for the

DoD ABIS, the BIMAs Iformatio Techology

(IT) staff maaged almost 600 additioal servers

databases, operatig systems, computig odes

ad work statios that provide the IT backboe

for the agecy

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMEnTS FY11

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US navy PO2 William Padilla, from the nurista ProvicialRecostructio Team Military Police, uses a HadheldIteragecy Idetity Detectio Equipmet (HIIDE) biometricsdevice durig a missio i nurgram district ceter, nuristaprovice, Afghaista, May 13, 2010 (US Air Force photoby SSgt Steve R Doty/Released)


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DeMonte, a former U.S. Air Force Communication/Navigation secialist with a

background in telecommunications, was running one branch, Architecture,whe a staff reshufflig this year added the Stadards brach to his plate Wearig his Architecture

hat, DeMote thiks big picture, mappig out systems ad processes from a eagle-eye view across

the Biometrics Eterprise We dot build the system or the data collectio device We build the

visio, he says Weve idetified whats already there i the As-Is Architecture, ad look for ways

to tie it all together more efficietly at the Eterprise level i the To-Be Architecture Wearig his

Stadards hat, he esures that the various collectio devices ad data formats are sychroized

across the DoD for iteroperability His work i both braches iforms his ogoig solutio to

a persistet questio: What additioal services ca we provide to the Eterprise with existig

resources? Similar to how smartphoes keep offerig ew ad diverse services without addig

hardware, DeMote sees a evolvig target state for DoD Biometrics: Oe system, may services

the laws of armed coflict that vary by coutry

ad missio I FY11, the BIMA also developed

a ew versio of the DoD Electroic Biometric

Trasmissio Specificatio (EBTS v30), which

allows for additioal capabilities to help idetify

persos of iterest The DoD ad Itelligece

Commuity Biometrics Focus Group cotiues

to build cosesus ad geerate chage

requests three times per year for the adoptio

of all biometrics-related stadards used a cross

the Eterprise ito the authoritative stadards

repositories The BIMA is a key participat i

atioal ad iteratioal stadards bodies o

biometrics ad security techiques: Iteratioal

Committee for Iformatio Techology Stadards

(InCITS) M1 (Biometrics 1) ad InCITS CS1

(Cyber Security 1), JTC 1 (Joit Techical

Committee 1)/SC37 (Subcommittee 37) ad

JTC 1/SC27 The team served as a editor

ad primary cotributor for the developmet of

Iteratioal Orgaizatio for Stadardizatio/

Iteratioal Electrotechical Commissio (ISO/

IEC) 19794-1, Amedmet 2, o Coformace

Testig Methodology for Biometric Data

Iterchage Formats This stadard allows

testig orgaizatios to validate coformace

of biometric data records to the applicable

data format stadards, ad helps esure

iteroperability of biometric data iterchages

CONFORMITY

To esure cosistet adoptio, developmet

ad implemetatio of biometric stadards

ad methodologies, the BIMA actively led

ad participated i atioal ad iteratioal

Stadards Developmet Orgaizatios BIMA

persoel worked closely with the natioal

Istitute of Stadards ad Techology (nIST),

which chairs the natioal Sciece ad

Techology Coucil (nSTC) Subcommittee o

Biometrics ad Idetity Maagemet, Stadards

ad Coformity Assessmet Workig Group (SCA

WG) The BIMA actively participated i the SCA

WG to esure DoD coordiatio ad aligmet

with federal parters o the developmet of

policy for the adoptio ad implemetatio of

biometric stadards ad stadardized testig

methodologies The BIMA provided iput to the

followig documets developed ad maitaied

by this group: Reg istry of USG Recommeded

Biometric Stadard; nSTC Policy for Eablig

the Developmet, Adoptio ad Use of Biometric

Stadards; Catalog of Active Biometric Test ad

Certificatio Programs; ad Biometric Iteragec

Test Evaluatio Schema Techical Report

The BIMA developed ehaced figerprit ad

face biometric sample quality measuremet

algorithms ad tools based o atioal ad

iteratioal biometric data format ad quality

stadards The BIMA is curretly developig

iris quality measuremet algorithms ad tools

to icrease the matchig performace for iris

images The quality scores ca be used to gai

a level of cofidece that high-quality images

are submitted to recogitio systems, ad will

ultimately icrease iteroperability

The BIMA chaired the DoD Biometrics Stadards

Workig Group (BSWG) to provide a forum for

cosesus buildig ad techical cosideratio

related to biometric stadardizatio O behalf

of the Defese Iformatio Systems Agecy

(DISA) ad uder the directio of the EM for

HIGHER STANDARDS

GIOVAnnI DEMOnTE, BIMAChief, Architecture ad Stadards Braches

Arligto, Va

We dont build the

system or the data

collection device.

We build the vision.


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DoD Biometrics, the BIMA chaired the DoD

ad Itelligece Commuity Biometrics Focus

Group This group develops cosesus across

the Biometrics Eterprise acquisitio stakeholder

commuity, ad biometric subject matter

experts, to research ad provide biometric ad

biometrically eabled itelligece stadards

recommedatios to the Joit Eterprise

Stadards Committee (JESC) These stadards

ca be adopted ito the DoD Iformatio

Techology Stadards Registry (DISR) ad

Itelligece Commuity Stadards Registry

(ICSR) authoritative databases Fially, the

BIMA participated i DoD/nATO stadards

collaboratio, workig o the developmet of

the first ever nATO Biometrics Stadardizatio

Agreemet (STAnAG)

BIOMETRICS AND FORENSICS:

A DOUBLE THREAT

I additio to servig as EA for DoD Biometrics,

the Secretary of the Army is ow al so EA for DoD

Foresics FY11 saw icreased collaboratio

betwee the BIMA ad the Armys Office of

the Provost Marshal Geeral (OPMG), the

Resposible Official (RO) for DoD Foresics The

BIMA also cotiued collaborative efforts with

the Armed Forces DnA Idetificatio Laboratory

(AFDIL) to explore ways to better correlate

biometric idetities submitted to the DoD ABIS

or AFDILs Laboratory Iformatio Systems

Applicatios (LISA) database

While DnA is well-suited for foresics, the DoD

recogizes that there are cosiderable policy

ad techical challeges i applyig DnA as a

biometric tool Ulike other modalities, DnA does

ot have a template ad requires two samples

to compare for matchig Also, DnA matchig

is ot as automated as the matchig of other

modalities such as figerprit, iris sca, palm

prit ad facial recogitio The BIMA is keepig

abreast of improvemets i matchig efficiecy

ad reductio of sample size, particularly

advaces i rapid DnA ad touch DnA

Aother successful tred i the BIMAs foresics

work ivolved expasio outside the DoD

to state ad federal agecies as well as the

private sector I FY11, the BIMA developed a

relatioship with the Iteratioal Associatio

for Idetificatio, the worlds oldest ad largest

professioal foresics orgaizatio The BIMA

preseted a exhibit at the America Academy

of Foresics Sciece Coferece, ad supported

the developmet ad completio of the ROTC

Foresic ad Biometric Iter Program held at

the natioal Foresic Sciece Techical Ceter

EnABLE THE MISSIOn

O lad or at sea, o base or far outside the

wire, DoD Biometrics powered by the BIMA take

idetity ad put it to work for iformed decisio

makig For the Soldier hutig terrorists i

Kadahar Provice, the border official o the

US-Mexico border, the navy SEAL boardig a

ufamiliar vessel or a Marie providig disaster

relief i stricke coutries, biometrics help brig

trasparecy to a opaque situatio

SUPPORTING THE WARFIGHTER

Supportig the warfighter remais a cetral

part of the BIMAs missio I FY11, the

Without collaboration among artnerssuch as DoD, the Deartment ofHomeland Security ad the iteratioalforesics commuity, biometrics caot produce

their fullest beefits, says Beard-Mitchell, a

former US Army officer ad the agecys

residet expert o foresics Biometrics, she

says, offer a verificatio applicatio such as

physical ad logical access cotrol, whereas

foresics are most ofte associated with

gatherig ad aalyzig physical evidece

from crime scees to idetify crimials adtheir victims Biometrics ad foresics ca

operate together to aalyze huma traits at a

crime scee or durig surveillace to gather a

positive idetificatio, she adds My biggest

cocer is how the biometrics commuity may

ot uderstad just how much biometrics ad

foresics overlap ad support each other not

oly does the safety of my husbad, whos

curretly deployed i Afghaista, keep me up

at ight, but so does kowig that Soldiers ad

leaders lack the kowledge of how the foresics

ad biometrics fields would aid i the safety ad

missio of the officers, as well as the me ad

wome servig uder them

VOn GRETCHEnBEARD-MITCHELL, BIMAPhysical Scietist (Future Modalities)

Arligto, Va

THE ONE-TWO pUNCH

Biometrics and forensics can oerate together to analyze

human traits at a crime scene or during surveillance togather a ositive identification.


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BIMA participated i the completio of the

Commanders Guide to Biometrics in Afghanistan,

published by the Ceter for Army Lessos

Leared, a effort that ivolved cross-agecy

coordiatio at multiple levels of commad This

hadbook serves as the most advaced ad

detailed biometrics guide for battlefield doctrie,

eablig curret commaders to operatioalize

biometrics The first prit ru produced 6,000

copies, which were distributed with the US Army

Traiig ad Doctrie Commad (TRADOC)

Capability Maagers video graphic o biometrics

ad the Military Decisio Makig Process

I FY11, the BIMA bega a update of the DoD

Capstone Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for

Employing Biometrics in Full-Spectrum Military

Operations, which is ogoig The BIMA also

supported OSD i startig the review ad

revisio of the DoD Directive for Biometrics

852101E, solicitig iput from iteral ad

exteral stakeholders i preparatio for formal

staffig expected by the ed of the year The

BIMA eabled a quick-traiig capability for

Army uits as a result of the updated series of

existig Hadheld Iteragecy Idetity Detectio

Equipmet (HIIDE) Graphic Traiig Aids, which

forms the groudwork for leveragig the system

to promulgate biometric capabilities at the

tactical level

The BIMA also assisted i draftig a Operatioal

needs Statemet (OnS) as the baselie

requiremet for biometric equipmet to be used

i home statio traiig by the US Army Forces

Commad (FORSCOM) ad First Army The OnS

has bee validated, ad as a result PM DoD

Biometrics is ow providig equipmet to fulfill

these requiremets The equipmet will eable

Army uits to carry out their missio with more

flexibility by providig ehaced biometrics

home statio traiig to Soldiers rather tha

depedig o Mobile Traiig Teams or Combat

Traiig Ceters

The BIMA made its traiig webpage more

accessible to a wider variety of US persoel by

allowig Service members to access biometrics

traiig material o both the Joit Kowledge

Iformatio Fusio Exchage (JKIFE) ad the

Defese Kowledge Olie (DKO) portals

Fially, the BIMA assisted USCEnTCOM ad

FORSCOM i updatig biometrics predeployme

traiig requiremets with the latest Techiques,

Tactics ad Procedures derived from lessos

leared i Iraq ad Afghaista

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A US Soldier with Alpha Compay, 1st Battalio,17th Ifatry Regimet collects biometric data durigOperatio Moshtarak i Badula Qulp, Helmad provice,Afghaista, Feb 21, 2010 (US Air Force photo byTSgt Efre Lopez/Released)

The birthdays and

the names are rarely

the same, but the

biometrics never lie.Do Walker

DoD ABIS Watch Desk Maager

Clarksburg, WVa


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QUICK HITS

O nov 16, 2010, USSOCOM Forces

detaied ad biometrically erolled two

suspects durig a raid o a objective i

Afghaista A moth later, o Dec 25,

USSOCOM agai detaied ad erolled the

me for suspected terrorist activities durig

a raid o a differet objective i the regio

Their erollmets were submitted to the DoD

ABIS ad resulted i a hit to their november

erollmets The status of the two suspects

was Tier 4 (Do not Hire; Dey Base Access;

Disqualify for Police or Army Traiig)

TECHNOLOGY: LEANING FORWARD

The BIMAs techology focus i FY11

trasitioed away from curret cocepts ad

techologies that could be leveraged i support

of todays warfighter requiremets Istead,

the BIMA is focusig o loger-term capability

gaps ad the developmet of strategies to meet

tomorrows challeges Several key iitiatives

demostrated by the BIMA at Marie Corps

Base Quatico, i Virgiia, i the prior fiscal year

became i-theater pilots i FY11 Examples

iclude a Web services watchlist template

server, figer quality graphig tool ad case

maagemet Web services The BIMA hosted

experimetatio evets ad participated i

work i Arizoa at Fort Huachuca ad Yuma

Provig Groud That work has culmiated i

fial preparatios for i-theater pilots The BIMA

cotiued to collaborate with the US Army

Sciece Board ad its work o o-cooperative

biometrics, as well as the Service labs, academia

ad, idirectly, with idustry

INTEROPERABILITY

The BIMA shares DoD biometric data with

parters icludig operatioal military forces, the

itelligece commuity, the persoel security

commuity ad iteragecy parters such as the

FBI, DHS ad the Departmet of State (DOS)

Iteroperability also exteds to iteratioal

parters; Memoradums of Cooperatio (MOCs)

were siged with Afghaista i Jauary 2011

ad Germay i July 2011, settig the coditios

for the sharig of biometric data with the DoD

ABIS The iformatio provided by the BIMA

eables ad supports security missios such as

the targetig of high-value idividuals, maritime

iterdictio operatios, physical ad logical

access cotrol, disaster relief, humaitaria

assistace, security operatios, i-theater

iteragecy operatios, access to services for

o-US persos, border protectio ad more

THE BIOMETRICS TRIAD

Biometrics offer critical applicatios from the

battlefield to the borders of the homelad

Therefore, the BIMA has a special data-sharig

relatioship with two key parters: DOJ

particularly the FBI Crimial Justice Iformatio

Services (CJIS) Divisioad DHS The DoD

ABIS already coducts fully automated data

sharig with the FBIs Itegrated Automated

Figerprit Idetificatio System (IAFIS)

database Throughout FY11, the BIMA made

strog advaces toward the same level of

iteroperability with DHS automated biometric

idetificatio system (IDEnT) database

Iteroperability betwee the DoD ABIS ad

IDEnT represets the last remaiig portio of

COL nATALIE JACARUSO,US ARMY, BIMAMilitary Deputy

Arligto, Va

COL DOUGLAS FLOHR,US ARMY, BIMADeputy Director, Operatios

Clarksburg, WVa

IDENTITY DOMINATORSKnowledge may be ower. But for theU.S. military, its also a weaon systemO todays asymmetric battlefields, America

Soldiers ad Maries routiely use biometrics

to kow with certitude whom theyre up

agaist That kowledge allows our forces

to better maage chaotic battlespaces, ad

make critical decisios with more assurace

ad cofidece Its bee a evolvig process

Sometime betwee 06 ad 07 i Iraq, thats

whe biometrics became a game chager,

says Jacaruso, a Iraq vetera who had a keyrole i establishig biometrics withi Operatio

Iraqi Freedom Biometrics wet from a buch

of devices ad this space-age techology to a

operatioal weapo system, which chaged

the way we fight I t allowed us to develop

idetity domiace That cocept refers to a

commaders ability to fully domiate his or her

area of resposibility by kowig the true idetitie

of those withi it The importace of biometrics

is the ability to idetify fried from foe at the tip of

the spear, otes Flohr, also a Iraq vetera A lo

of our eemies are ot wearig uiforms aymore

You have to be able to idetify them Biometrics

give you the tools to do that Biometrics are

facts You ca attempt to hide o the battlefield

You ca attempt to lie to a America Soldier

Biometrics wot let you do that

The imortance of biometrics

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LOOKING SOUTH

I February 2010, itelligece aalysts with

the US Special Operatios Commad

South (USSOCSOUTH) deployed to the US

Embassy i Quito, Ecuador, to support the

ICE Attach Office durig ivestigatios of

Ecuador-based Middle Easter ad Africa

etworks egagig i illicit traffickig of

humas, weapos, cash ad arcotics

Durig a two-week deploymet, 19 idividuals

were biometrically erolled at Quitos Mariscal

Sucre Iteratioal Airport The followig

Jue, whe two idividuals were detaied by

CBP officers i the desert ear Tucso, Ariz,

both were figerprited Oe provided a hit

to oe of the February Quito erollmets,

despite the fact that he had traveled through

Ecuador uder a differet ame ad with

differet travel documets tha whe he was

detaied i Arizoa His travel compaio

claimed loose ties to Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami

Bagladesh, a terrorist orgaizatio, ad both

were deied asylum to the US As a result,

ICE icreased its ivestmet i biometrics

throughout the US Souther Commad

(USSOUTHCOM) Area of Resposibility

(AOR) Additioally, Ecuadors govermet

implemeted visa requiremets for citizes of

ie Middle Easter ad Africa coutries

COCOM ENGAGEMENT

Biometrics powered by the BIMA have

facilitated the buildig ad stregtheig of key

relatioships with our iteragecy parters ad

foreig govermets to cofrot challeges

such as iteratioal drug traffickig, special

the Biometrics Triad, per Homelad Security

Presidetial Directive (HSPD) 24s madate for

iteragecy biometric data sharig The DoD

ABIS already shares high-priority biometric

datasets with key customers at DHS, such as

Immigratio ad Customs Eforcemet (ICE),

Customs ad Border Protectio (CBP) ad the

US Coast Guard (USCG) These orgaizatios

utilize the DoD architecture to submit directly to

the DoD ABIS, which facilitates the automated

passage of the data to DOJ ad the to DHS

The path to full ad automated iteroperability

ivolves solvig ot just techical challeges

but policy issues The BIMA cotributed to

the resolutio of both challeges this year by

supportig a OSD-led effort that resulted i

the sigig of a Memoradum of Agreemet

(MOA) betwee the DoD ad DHS o March

23, 2011 The MOA govers iteroperability

ad leads to automated processes for sharig

data Through its lead role o the Itegrated

Project Team (IPT), co-chaired by DoD ad DHS

officials, the BIMA validated DoD stakeholder

requiremets for iteroperability through a Joit

Fuctioal Requiremets Documet The BIMA

cotiues to aalyze ad implemet iterim

solutios to iteroperability through the use of

the FBIs IAFIS Iteroperability betwee the

DoD ABIS ad IDEnT will better eable DoD

ABIS customers to idetify adversaries ad

protect persoel ad ifrastructure overseas

ad at home The sigig of the MOA i March

provides the policy foudatio for the IPT to

move forward to full iteroperability betwee the

DoD ad DHS, projected to occur i fall 2012

THE BIOMETRICS TRIADA atioal security payoff

CURREnT STATE EnD STATE


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iterest alies ad other potetial adversaries

For example, biometrics have served as a door-

opeer for USSOCSOUTH ad USSOUTHCOM

to work more closely with ICE, the Drug

Eforcemet Admiistratio (DEA), the FBI ad

foreig govermets

Begiig i fall 2010, the BIMAs operatioal

activities supported the US Africa Commads

(USAFRICOMs) nocombatat Evacuatio

Operatios (nEO) to itegrate biometrics ito

the nEO Trackig System, missio aalysis

ad Hor of Africa AOR for maritime ad border

security The BIMA remais egaged with

USAFRICOM o curret iitiatives such as fusig

biometrics, foresics, ad exploitatio of media

ad documets; tryig to get mapower ad

equipmet to the Service compoets through

USAFRICOM resources; istallig base-access

systems; establishig a USAFRICOM portal for

biometrics submissios; coductig security

vettig o parter atios ivolved i traiig

ad exercises; ad providig equipmet to those

atios for maritime ad border security

The BIMA fuded Idetity Operatios Maagers

(IOMs) i the COCOMs i FY11 with a implied

missio to establish edurig biometrics

capabilities i support of the DoD Biometrics

Eterprise IOMs coordiate with the BIMA for

the sychroizatio ad itegratio of idetity

maagemet capabilities, ad support the

developmet of the appropriate COCOMs

Biometrics COnOPS for their missio sets

The BIMA coducts quarterly program

maagemet reviews o the use of IOM

resources ad cotributios

SECURING THE BORDER

O May 27, 2011, the BIMA received a

submissio for a idividual who applied

for US immigratio beefits through the

Departmet of Homelad Securitys Refugee

Affairs Divisio This resulted i a hit The

idividual had bee erolled i October 2004,

most likely by a Soldier usig the Biometrics

Automated Toolset (BAT) for stealig evidece

from a ivestigatio The idividual had

bee issued a Itermet Serial number

from the natioal Detaiee Reportig Ceter

His status was Tier 4 (Do not Hire; Dey

Base Access; Disqualify for Police or Army

Traiig) The hit was a sigificat success

for the iteroperability of the DoD with DHS

BITMAP

The Biometric Idetificatio Trasatioal

Migratio Alert Program (BITMAP), begu i

fall 2010, moved worldwide ad marked a solid

achievemet for the BIMA i FY11 The program,

ru joitly by ICE ad the DoD, eables the two

orgaizatios to submit data cooperatively to the

DoD ABIS, with throughput to the FBIs IAFIS ad

DHS IDEnT, resultig i efficiet resposes to

ICE agets, Soldiers, Sailors ad Maries o the

groud These agets saw matches o idividuals

erolled previously i the USCEnTCOM AOR

The program has also eabled the collectio of

hudreds of thousads of hard cards from the

crimial files of various foreig coutries, complete

with figerprit data, which will be migrated to

the DoD ABIS oce throughput challeges of

such a large dataset are hadled The payoff

to the BIMAs customers is uderstadig what

resources are available to trasfer biometrics

The field of biometrics creates careersWhe DeMarco etered college more tha a

decade ago ad bega earig her degree i

maagemet iformatio systems, DHS ad

the BIMA didt exist Today, with a masters

degree i project maagemet, she spet most

of FY11 as the DHS poit perso at US Visitor

ad Immigrat Status Idicator Techology

(US-VISIT), collaboratig with the BIMA to

brig DoDs ABIS ad DHS IDEnT databases

to full iteroperability, projected for late 2012

Iteroperability betwee federal agecies iscrucial Its a very complex iitiative, she

says I the begiig, I had to lear BIMAs

orgaizatioal structure now, I ca look back

ad say that its bee a pleasure workig with

everyoe ad watchig the r elatioship betwee

agecies grow Most of all, DeMarco says

shes pleased to cotribute to our atioal

security by implemetig the teprit biometric

capture devices at DHS ports of etry that have

allowed for icreased data-sharig betwee

agecies DoD shares importat data to assist

DHS i immigratio eforcemet ad providig

immigratio beefits Shari g this data with the

Departmet of State also eables DHS to keep

out those idividuals who should ot be i the

US Iteroperability betwee agecies has

stregtheed the security of our atio

STEPHAnIE DEMARCO,DEPARTMEnT OF HOMELAnDSECURITY,US-VISITProject Maager, DHS/DoD

Iteroperability Project

Arligto, Va

THE STRENGTH IN SHARING

Interoerability between agencies hasstrengthened the security of our nation.


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iformatio, ad receivig operatioal help from

BIMA staff who ca idetify the curret capabilities

of the systems ad help customers develop

requiremets for idetity solutios

REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT

Throughout FY11, the BIMA dealt o a daily

basis with the J-8, the Army G-38 ad G-3/5/7,

ad primarily the Departmet of the Army

Military Operatios Capability Itegratio

Divisio (DAMO-CI) A BIMA liaiso officer to

the J-8 ehaced the agecys relatioship

with the J-8 throughout the year This gave the

BIMA better visibility across the Eterprise, ad

helped the BIMA better coordiate processes

ad capabilities withi the Eterprise The

BIMA completed populatig its requiremets

maagemet repository ito the Dyamic

Object-Orieted Requiremets System (DOORS)

This tool facilitates requiremets traceabilityacross the Eterprise The uploadig of

source documets such as the Capabilities

Developmet Documet, Capabilities Product

Documet, System Requiremets Specificatios

ad Architectural Views provide the required

details for determiig operatioal, system

ad techical eeds toward the delivery of

biometrics capabilities Examples of these

documets iclude the Biometrics Eablig

Capability (BEC), the next-Geeratio DoD

ABIS (nGA) ad evetually will iclude

additioal Joit Capabilities Itegratio ad

Developmet System (JCIDS) documets ad

system specificatios BIMA staff also provided

Eterprise-level perspective o the Joit Urget

Operatioal needs Statemet (JUOnS) for

Data Sychroizatio ad Improved Tactical

Hadheld The BIMA hosted ad completed

the BEWL Tiger Team as directed by the Joit

Biometrics Operatioal Coordiatio Board

(JBOCB), providig iformatio to support

desig resolutio for the navys Iformatio

Domiace System The BIMA provided

sigificat iput, oversight ad support i

FY11 to the developmet of these Capabilities

Developmet Documets, which esures that

the DoD will be able to establish two programs

of record for biometrics: The BEC ad the

Joit Persoel Idetificatio (versio 2) The

approval ad validatio by the DoD of the

documets allows the acquisitio commuity to

further develop ew authoritative repository ad

joit collectio/capture devices for biometrics

THE SUPER HIT

O July 21, 2011, at 6:45 pm, while may

Americas o the East Coast might have

bee gathered aroud the dier table, BIMA

staffers i Clarksburg, WVa, were hard at

work moitorig their computer displays

Suddely, a erollmet arrived from the US

You cant change biometrics.

They are yours. There is no

forging it, no faking it.CAPT James Fossa, US navy

Director of Biometrics i Iraq

Army Times, Aug 29, 2011

THE SUPER HIT

Watch Desk staffers ad Figerprit Examiers from the BIMAs Clarksburg facility posewith prits from their biggest catch of FY11

Name: XXX

DOB: XXX

HT: 5 06

WT: 133

Eyes: BROWN

Hair: BLACK

120IEDRelatedLatents

34DistinctIEDCasesLinks

Two(2)DoDEnrollments

Two(2)InteragencyEnrollments

One(1)DoDDetaineeEnrollment

Background

March 2011: IED related evidece was received

ad processed by multiple agecies betwee

May 2010 ad July 2011 The latet prits were

submitted with o sigificat idetificatios ad

added to the DoD ABIS Usolved Latet File

21 July 2011: The subject was ecoutered ad

erolled by DoD elemets due to suspicio ofterrorist activities resultig i multiple usolved

latet matches cofirmed by BIMAs Biometric

Examiatio Services Team

DoD Enrollment IED Related Latent

Latent Case Print

Latent Case: ######

Priority Code: Green

21 July 2011 SOCOM Enrollment

Unsolved Latent Files


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Special Operatios Commad (USSOCOM)

I miutes, latet prit examiers determied

that the figerprits of the ew idividual

matched latet prits already collected from

multiple Improvised Explosive Device (IED)

evets the evetual cout reached 34

evets with 120 latet prits stored i the

DoD ABIS Usolved Latet File Betwee

May 2010 ad July 2011, the DoD ABIS had

received multiple cases cotaiig the latet

prits of oe idividual whose ridge flow

displayed a distictive whorl We kew of

some of the likages because at the time we

were doig l atet-to-latet comparisos,

says Certified Latet Prit Examier Lidsay

McAvoy However, whe those prits were

submitted, ABIS did ot cotai a teprit

record of the idividual i questio It wast

util July 21, 2011, that the first teprit record

of him was submitted ito the DoD ABIS

The examiers workig the usolved latet

match recogized his prits i mmediately, she

says The Biometric Examiatio Services

team respoded promptly to USSOCOM

Forces, who detaied the idividual This

Super Hit, which marks a record umber

of IED evets traced to oe idividual,

demostrates the BIMAs cotiuig ability

to coect the dots i pursuit of the most

elusive ad dagerous adversaries Its

ice to have a job where you work diligetly

ad see the rewards, says the BIMAs

Eterprise Operatios Divisio Chief Cheley

Gabriel Our people are proud of what they

do o a daily basis Everyoe i my divisio

uderstads that they are part of a team

COLLABORATION WITH ACADEMIA

BIMA research ad developmet fudig moves

through approved military chaels such as the

US Army Armamet Research, Developmet

ad Egieerig Ceter (ARDEC) i Picatiy,

nJ, ad arrives at private istitutios of higher

learig icludig West Virgiia Uiversity,

Clarkso Uiversity ad Caregie Mello

Uiversity Researchers at Caregie Mellos

CyLab are developig algorithms for robust

face ad iris biometrics ad patter recogitio,

log-rage iris acquisitio ad idetificatio, ad

the geeratio of 3D face models from sigle 2D

images The BIMA keeps abreast of cuttig-

edge research at these istitutios through

Biometrics Techology Demostratios

(BTDs) that may oe day become operatioal

applicatios to supplemet the agecys curret

portfolio of modalities

The BIMA is also a member of the Ceter for

Idetificatio Techology Research (CITeR), a

natioal Sciece Foudatio Idustry/Uiversity

Cooperative Research Ceter comprised of

govermet agecies such as the FBI ad

DHS, labs such as nIST ad major defese

cotractors CITeR advaces the performace

of biometric ad huma credibility assessmet

systems through the cross-disciplie research of

eablig techologies, iterdiscipliary traiig

of scietists ad egieers, ad facilitatio of

ew techology trasfers to the private ad

govermet sectors The BIMA holds two

memberships with CITeR to more fully advace

its research eeds ad better reap the beefits o

academic expertise

She knows fingerrints like the back of her hand. Miller, a Certified Latet Prit Examier(CLPE), will compare hudreds of figerprits most days ad thousads other days Theyre

uique, ad theyre permaet, she says The frictio ridges o huma figers, toes, palms ad

feet begi to form i the 10th week of gestatio, ad are fully formed by the 17th week Sixty-five

percet of huma figerprits are loops; 30 percet are whorls; ad 5 percet are arches, she

says That frequecy has remaied over may, may years Its a mystery Miller deals i solvable

mysteries for the DoD, such as helpig to determie whos makig ad detoatig Improvised

Explosive Devices (IEDs) i Iraq ad Afghaista She compares prits of detaiees to latet, or

ukow, prits that have bee searched by Biometric Examiatio Services (BES) team members

i the DoD Automated Biometric Idetificatio System (DoD ABIS), may of them take from the

fragmets of IED evets Whe a ew, high-priority erollmet comes i ad there is a potetial

latet match, the quiet room she shares with other examiers, packed with high-resolutio flat

screes, gets busier All the computers beep, she says We kow a high priority is waitig, ad

its a matter of who grabs it first

MYSTERY SOLVERS

ALLISOn MILLER, BIMABiometric Examiatio Services Team

Clarksburg, WVa

All the comuters

bee. We know

a high riority is

waiting, and its

a matter of who

grabs it first.


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PROTECT InFORMATIOn,IDEnTITIES, PEOPLE

To idetify ad eable leads to the ultimate

payoff of biometrics: protectio This is

reiterated i the BIMAs visio statemet:

Protect the atio through the employmet

of biometrics capabilities From a practical

stadpoit, its about protectig people,

istallatios ad classified iformatio at home

ad abroad Coceptually, its about protectig

the advatage, the missio ad the shared ideals

of freedom ad democracy Protectio is the

true measure of the success or failure of the

Biometrics Eterprise

MEASURING SUCCESS

The BIMA performed 62 separate evets for

stadards coformace, iteroperability ad

supportability testig of biometrics-eabled

programs ad systems i FY11 Test egieers

plaed, executed, aalyzed ad reported

o 13 separate evaluatios i support of

USSOCOM, USCEnTCOM, USSOUTHCOM,

Army G-2 ad other DoD ad US govermet

sposors The agecy maitais ad updates

its Coformace Products List (CPL), which

provides leaders ad decisio makers across

the Biometrics Eterprise with a listig of

biometrics-eabled techologies ad vedors

who have bee assessed ad meet CPL criteria

Additios, deletios ad modificatios to the

CPL, which curretly has 51 products, occur

cotiually Furthermore, the BIMA completed

duties ad resposibilities as the Participatig

Test Uit Coordiator (PTUC) for the Biometrics

Commuity of Iterest i accordace with

Chairma of the Joit Chiefs of Staff Istructio

(CJCSI) 621201E These resposibilities

provide the customer or stakeholder with

guidig priciples, test procedures, stadards

coformace, fuctioality ad DoD ABIS

itegratio test data for the best deploymet

decisios Laboratory ad operatioally realistic

eviromet tests icluded the Multiligual

Automated Respose System (MARS), which

uses the Secure Electroic Erollmet Kit (SEEK

I ad II hardware, the HIIDE, the Missio Oriete

Biometric Software (MOBS) ad the Coget

Fusio Multimodal Biometric Hadheld Device

The BIMA coordiated ad iitiated a HSPD 12

pilot with the US Army Accessios Commad

(USAAC) to perform backgroud ivestigatios

o potetial Army recruits I early FY11, the

BIMA achieved accreditatio to the natioal

Volutary Laboratory Accreditatio Program

(nVLAP) from nIST for services listed o the

Scope of Accreditatio nVLAP Lab Code

200933-0, for Biometrics Testig The BIMA

was the first biometrics testig laboratory to

receive this, which demostrates techical

competece for a defied scope ad operatio

of laboratory quality ad maagemet systems

It also provides credibility to the quality ad

maagemet processes BIMA test egieers use

to coduct test evets, experimets ad iteral

ad exteral audits; ad collect, track, aalyze

ad report operatioal performace metrics for

the biometrics commuity

PRIVACY

I FY11, the BIMA iitiated a thorough review of

its privacy program to validate ad stregthe

nnUal rePort

US Army CPL Rya Brooks, with 8th Squadro, BearTroop, 1st Cavalry Regimet, scas a Afgha masfigerprit with a Hadheld Iteragecy Idetity DetectioEquipmet (HIIDE) biometrics device i Spi Boldak,Afghaista, Ja 12, 2010 (US Air Force photo byTSgt Fracisco V Govea II/Released)


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InstitutionalizeanIdAcultureacrossthe

departmet: This provides a commo

uderstadig of idetity issues across

all missio eviromets through the

developmet of a COnOPS, policies,

processes, stadards ad terms of referece

Supporttransparentidentitydata-sharing

activities betwee iteragecy, iteratioal

ad commercial missio parters: This

effortless capability allows missio owers

to share idetity iformatio across all

military, govermetal ad commercial

etworks that will eable effective

trasactios i the global cyberspace

Enablethedevelopment,deployment,

operatio ad maiteace of a reliable,

iteroperable ad secure departmet-

wide capability: Aligmet of strategic,

operatioal ad techical materiel

ivestmets across all missio eviromets

esures idetity ad iformatio assurace

i support of access maagemet

The evets leadig up to 9/11 illustrate the

importace of sharig idetity iformatio with

domestic ad iteratioal missio parters, i

order to establish global situatioal awareess of

the true idetities of persos ad other etities of

iterest This is a required capability for deyig

uauthorized access to US property, etworks

ad iformatio The IdA Workig Group is

developig a COnOPS ad departmet-wide

Implemetatio Guidace & Roadmap that

positios the departmet to mitigate the risk of

asymmetric ad cyber threats These threats use

fraudulet idetities ad credetials to exploit

the itrisic vulerabilities i ope societies

that value civil liberties ad persoal privacy

Biometrics play a key role i IdA, which eables

high cofidece that a idividual is who he

or she claims to be Furthermore, biometrics

ca eable persoel suitability screeig by

providig a additioal meas to check agaist

authoritative ad/or derogatory databases

beyod traditioal ame-based methods

THE TURBAN BOMBER

O Sept 20, 2011, former Afgha Presidet

Burhauddi Rabbai was holdig peace

talks i his Kabul home whe a suicide

bomber cocealig a explosive i his

turba etered the home usearched ad

detoated the device, killig Rabbai ad

four of his bodyguards A teprit file o the

bomber was submitted to the FBIs Itegrated

Automated Figerprit Idetificatio System

(IAFIS), ad was automatically searched

agaist the DoD Automated Biometric

Idetificatio System (DoD ABIS) with o

matches BIMA persoel i Clarksburg,

WVa, were suspicious of the failed match a

obtaied the file from the DoD ABIS Watch

Desk for further aalysis by the Biometric

Examiatio Services (BES) team Certified

prit examiers o the team oticed that the

prits appeared to be out of sequece ad

corrected the errors After resubmittig the

file, the prits resulted i a hit to a perso

twice erolled ito the DoD ABIS i late 2009

the turba bomber Oe of the two files

matched had bee provided by a Coalitio

parter, uderscorig the crucial role of

iteratioal data sharig

policies ad processes for protectig iformatio

throughout the biometrics life cycle, from

collectio ad storage to use ad dispositio

This proactive approach will sustai privacy as a

top priority, while allowig DoD Biometrics users

to exploit iformatio i support of DoD military

operatios ad busiess fuctios Utilizig

techological advacemets ad best practices

i iformatio security, the BIMA addresses

potetial pitfalls ad guaratees the secure use

of biometrics for missio success

DOD IDENTITY ASSURANCE

Sice April 2010, the Idetity ad Privilege

Maagemet Workig Group has bee charged

by the Idetity Protectio ad Maagemet

Seior Coordiatig Group (IPMSCG) to

lead DoD efforts o creatig a roadmap ad

implemetatio guidace for the DoDs Idetity

Maagemet Strategic Pla The BIMA has

actively participated i the group, eve providig

a embedded actio officer to the Office of the

DoD Chief Iformatio Officer, who is leadig the

effort Durig FY11, the group ad the products

evolved to emphasize a ew overarchig term:

Idetity Assurace (IdA)

IdA is a comprehesive DoD framework to

mitigate the rapidly icreasig atioal security

risk of adversaries utilizig fraudulet idetities

ad credetials to achieve uauthorized access

to US property, etworks ad iformatio IdA

balaces protectig privacy with maximizig the

ability to dey aoymity to trasatioal threats

It does this by sharig idetity iformatio with

domestic ad iteratioal parters to support

ear-real time, global idetity autheticatio

Effective DoD-wide goverace is required

to uify policies, processes, stadards ad

eterprise capabilities that bid the physical ad

digital represetatios of etities ad eable

the itegrity, privacy, autheticity ad availability

of idetity iformatio across all DoD missio

eviromets Accomplishig the followig

strategic goals will establish a IdA capability/

framework for the departmet:

Unityofpurposeforeffectivegovernance

ad employmet: Uified goverace

esures that a focused strategy is employed

to mitigate risk, limit redudacy, bridge

stovepipes, ad eable secure iformatio-

sharig ad coordiatio with domestic ad

iteratioal missio parters

The warfighter believes in the ower of biometrics exloitation

and identity oerations. Units like SOCOM search the DoD

Biometric Authoritative Database, even on Christmas Day. This

caability is relied uon by our command 24/7/365.Craig J Archer, Idetity Superiority Maager, USSOCOM


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WAY AHEAD

The BIMA will cotiue to lead DoD activities

i the comig moths to program, itegrate

ad sychroize biometrics techologies

ad capabilities The methodologies ad

applicatios for biometrics will oly expad with

the eeds ad creativity of those who cotribute

data i-theater ad those who receive ad

maage the data i the US Biometrics, as

a eablig tool to the warfighter, to busiess

fuctios ad to atioal security, have already

become a irreplaceable atioal asset

THE DOD ABIS

As the ceter of gravity for the may idetity

fuctios withi the Biometrics Eterprise, the

DoD ABIS will cotiue to grow i importace

The operatio, maiteace ad ehacemet

of the system are paramout to esurig that the

atio ca idetify threats ad adversaries goig

forward The DoD ABIS will cotiue to grow to

hadle the iteragecy ad iteratioal data-

sharig demads of our parters ad allies

EA AND EM

By facilitatig log-term ivestmet ad

cosistetly ehacig biometrics fuctioality,

the Secretary of the Army will cotiue to

fulfill the role as the EA for DoD Biometrics

to istitutioalize the capability as a core

competecy of the departmet The Director,

BIMA, as the EM for DoD Biometrics, will

cotiue to lead DoD activities to program ad

sychroize biometrics capabilities; the Director

will also cotiue to oversee the operatio of the

DoD authoritative biometrics database This is

importat to the etire departmet ad to the

protectio of the homelad, because biometrics

are a icreasigly vital key to security efforts

i the fight agaist terrorism ad to atioal

security The ability to establish a idividuals

idetity with certitude ad lik the idividual

to past aliases or activities gives our military

persoel a decisive edge, ad aids other US

govermet orgaizatios i their atioal

security missios

INTEROPERABILITY

Recogizig the critical ature of iformatio

sharig, the BIMA will cotiue to foster

collaboratio with a variety of parters to dey

aoymity to the eemies of the US ad its allies

Iteroperability of the DoD ABIS with operatioal

military forces, the itelligece commuity,

itergovermetal agecies ad foreig parters

cotiues to icrease Right ow, the BIMA is

puttig the fial techology ad policy pieces i

place to achieve iteroperability with DHS i late

2012, streamliig ad automatig the sharig of

biometric, biographic ad cotextual iformatio

This will complete the Biometrics Triad of DoD,

DOJ ad DHS Iteroperabili ty eriches the

biometrics database used by border maageme

ad itelligece agecies, as well as federal,

state ad local law eforcemet agecies, ad

icreases the probability of idetifyig persos of

iterest across the US govermets may laes

of vigilace

FORWARD-LOOKING ARCHITECTURE

The BIMA maitais a steady dialogue with

COCOM, Service ad Coalitio parters as the

orgaizatio moves from the As-Is Architecture,

approved i March 2011, toward the To-Be

Architecture of 2015 The To-Be BioEA will

nnUal rePort

US Marie Corps LCpl Maxx A Juusola, with CharlieCompay, 1st Battalio, 3rd Marie Regimet, cleasthe figer of a Afgha ma before usig a BiometricAutomated Toolset (BAT) device to record iformatio abouthim i Marjah, Afghaista, Feb 22, 2010 Maries use theBAT to create a record of people livig i a area(US Marie Corps photo by Cpl Albert F Hut/Released)


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eable maagemet of a portfolio of services

spaig busiess processes, eterprise support

ad ifrastructure, ad utilizig techiques like

gap-fit aalysis to reduce duplicatio, all of

which will cotribute to the blueprit for future

iteroperability Additioally, the To-Be BioEA will

icorporate existig architectures ad referece

models such as the DoD Service Referece

Model ad the net-Cetric Eterprise Services

program i order to leverage available Joit ad

federal capabilities to satisfy missio eeds to

avoid duplicatig capabilities

PRIVACY: A HIGH PRIORITY

The core capabilities of biometrics are uiquely

ad iextricably liked to idividual privacy

As the agecy resposible for the DoDs

authoritative biometrics repository, the BIMA

complies with federal laws ad regulatios to

prevet uwarrated ivasios of privacy By

cotiually assessig its privacy posture, the

BIMA will work diligetly i FY12 to gai the

publics trust ad cofidece The BIMA strives

for trasparecy, allowig the public to kow

up frot how their biometrics will be used To

further comply with privacy madates ad fair

iformatio practices, the BIMA has iitiated a

agecy-wide review of the practical ad desired

uses of biometrics This will eable DoD users

to reiforce trasparecy ad stay ahead of

evolvig missio requiremets

The Navy has taken an interest in biometrics for the same reasons its

imortant to everybody else, says Wasso, who trais ad evaluates the navys eliteVisit, Board, Search ad Seizure (VBSS) teams based o the East Coast to carry out maritime

iterceptio ad couter-piracy operatios There are persos of iterest out there tryig to go

differet places With two-thirds of the world covered by water, theres a good chace targets

will try ad go somewhere by boat Biometrics, he says, empower VBSS operatios because

were boardig these vessels for a reaso We have itelligece that theyre smugglig

somethig, or that theyre carryig somebody of iterest Hes grateful for the quick turaroud

o idetificatios If we had just that collectio capability oly, ad we fid out three days later

that we had somebody, the ship could already be i port The wed have to track it dow, ad

three days gives somebody a big head start But if we ca get it set off to the BIMA ad get

back a positive idetificatio while we still have those people i our possessio, while were still

o board the ship, the we ca do somethig about it

HIGH SEAS SUCCESS

LCDR KEn WASSOn, US nAVYMaritime Security/Mie Warfare Officer

naval Statio norfolk, Va

With two-thirds of

the world covered

by water, theres a

good chance targets

will try and go

somewhere by boat.


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ABIS Automated Biometric

Idetificatio System

AFDIL Armed Forces DnA

Idetificatio Laboratory

AOR Area of Resposibility

ARDEC US Army Armamet Research,

Developmet ad Egieerig Ceter

ASA(ALT) Assistat Secretary of the Army for

Acquisitio, Logistics ad Techology

ASD(R&E) Assistat Secretary of Defese for

Research ad Egieerig

BAT Biometric Automated Toolset

BDS COI Biometric Data Sharig Commuity

of Iterest

BE Biometric Examier

BEC Biometrics Eablig Capability

BES Biometric Examiatio Services

BESP Biometrics Eterprise Strategic Pla

BEWL Biometrically Eabled Watchlist

BIMA Biometrics Idetity

Maagemet Agecy

BioEA Biometrics Eterprise Architecture

BITMAP Biometric Idetificatio Trasatioal

Migratio Alert Program

BSWG Biometrics Stadards Workig Group

BTD Biometrics Techology Demostratio

CBP Customs ad Border Protectio

CITeR Ceter for Idetificatio

Techology Research

CJCSI Chairma of the Joit Chiefs of

Staff Istructio

CJIS Crimial Justice Iformatio Services

Divisio (FBI)

CLPE Certified Latet Prit Examier

COCOM Combatat Commad

COnOPS Cocept of Operatios

CPL Coformace Products List

DAMO-CI Departmet of the Army Military

Operatios Capability

Itegratio Divisio

DEA Drug Eforcemet Admiistratio

DHS Departmet of Homelad Security

DISA Defese Iformatio Systems Agec

DISR DoD Iformatio Techology

Stadards Registry

DKO Defese Kowledge Olie

DnA Deoxyriboucleic Acid

DoD Departmet of Defese

DOJ Departmet of Justice

DOORS Dyamic Object-Orieted

Requiremets System

DOS Departmet of State

EA Executive Aget

EBTS Electroic Biometric

Trasmissio Specificatio

EM Executive Maager

FBI Federal Bureau of Ivestigatio

FORSCOM US Army Forces Commad

FY Fiscal Year

HIIDE Hadheld Iteragecy Idetity

Detectio Equipmet

HSPD Homelad Security

Presidetial Directive

IAFIS Itegrated Automated Figerprit

Idetificatio System

ICE Immigratio ad

Customs Eforcemet

ICSR Itelligece CommuityStadards Registry

IdA Idetity Assurace

IDEnT Abbreviatio for the DHS, US-VISIT

Programs automated biometric

idetificatio system

ACROnYMSCOnCLUSIOn

ENDURING CAPABILITY AND PROGRAM OF RECORD

The demad curve ad operatioal appetite for biometrics will icrease eve with the

drawdows i Iraq ad Afghaista It is essetial that biometrics capabilities edure, ad

support curret ad future eeds Both the Army ad the DoD recogize the value of biometrics

to the warfighter i the field, ad to support atioal security ad homelad defese As a

result, the DoD will eed to retai, sustai ad expad its biometrics capabilities, maitaiig a

global presece through activities such as direct actio, traiig of parter forces, humaitaria

missios ad improvig busiess fuctios Over the last decade, DoD Biometrics has

udergoe a steady trasformatio from what was oce a quick-reactio program to oe ow

maturig ito a edurig capability ad program of record Biometrics are here to stay


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NNUAL REPORT


wwwb iometr ic

IEC Iteratioal Electrotechical

Commissio

IED Improvised Explosive Device

InCITS Iteratioal Committee for

Iformatio Techology Stadards

IOM Idetity Operatios Maager

IPMSCG Idetity Protectio ad Maagemet

Seior Coordiatig Group

IPT Itegrated Project Team

ISO Iteratioal Orgaizatio

for Stadardizatio

IT Iformatio TechologyJBOCB Joit Biometrics Operatioal

Coordiatio Board

JCIDS Joit Capabilities Itegratio ad

Developmet System

JESC Joit Eterprise Stadards Committee

JKIFE Joit Kowledge Iformatio

Fusio Exchage

JTC Joit Techical Committee

JUOnS Joit Urget Operatioal

needs Statemet

LISA Laboratory Iformatio

Systems Applicatios

MARS Multiligual Automated

Respose System

MOA Memoradum of Agreemet

MOBS Missio Orieted Biometric Software

MOC Memoradum of Cooperatio

nEO nocombatat Evacuatio

Operatios

nGA next-Geeratio DoD ABIS

nIST natioal Istitute of Stadards

ad Techology

nSTC natioal Sciece ad

Techology Coucil

nVLAP natioal Volutary Laboratory

Accreditatio Program

OnS Operatioal needs Statemet

OPMG Office of the Provost Marshal Geeral

ORI Origiatig Agecy Idetifier

OSD Office of the Secretary of Defese

PEO EIS Program Executive Office Eterprise

Iformatio Systems

PM Project Maager

PSA Pricipal Staff Assistat

PTUC Participatig Test Uit Coordiator

RO Resposible Official

(for DoD Foresics)

SCA WG Stadards ad Coformity

Assessmet Workig Group

SEEK Secure Electroic Erollmet Kit

STAnAG Stadardizatio Agreemet

TRADOC US Army Traiig ad

Doctrie Commad

USAAC US Army Accessios Commad

USAFRICOM US Africa Commad

USCEnTCOM US Cetral Commad

USCG US Coast Guard

USF-I US Forces Iraq

USFOR-A US Forces Afghaista

USSOCOM US Special Operatios Commad

USSOCSOUTH US Special Operatios

Commad South

USSOUTHCOM US Souther Commad

US-VISIT US Visitor ad Immigrat Status

Idicator Techology Program

VBSS Visit, Board, Search ad Seizure

BIMA FY11 ANNUAL REPORTProduced by the Commuicatios ad Outreach Brach

Editor Chris LawsoMaagig Editor Mike KlesiusDesiger neil FesslerCotributors Steve Taylor

Elizabeth Weaver

Portrait Photographers:Jeff WrightMcArthur newellJo Girard, US-VISITMass Comms SPC3 Scott Pittma, USn


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