(Tribune News Service) — An experiment with facial-recognition technology at Redstone Arsenal will hopefully allow employees to get inside the installation more quickly.
Lafe Hutcheson is leading the experiment at the arsenal in Huntsville for IDEMIA, a biometrics company that makes passports, credit cards, drivers’ licenses and other sensitive products for states and the federal government.
Redstone is where as many as 40,000 people report to work each day now that the pandemic has ended. They work for a variety of federal entities such as the Army, NASA and FBI. It’s also where traffic crunch points can pop up with growth in an area like the arsenal’s west side.
IDEMIA also makes Alabama driver’s licenses and, for the 18 million people enrolled in TSA airline flight precheck, the company does the enrolling and makes the scanner that reads your TSA card in airports.
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