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CONTRACT WITH NORTHROP TO PROVIDE BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
25 January 2005 - Sagem Communication
| SAGEM just signed an eight-year contract with Northrop Grumman Information Technology to provide advanced biometric identification technology which will be used to upgrade a computer system linking more than fifty police forces and agencies in the United Kingdom. |
25th January 2005
SAGEM will deliver this advanced biometric technology to help Northrop Grumman IT integrate and enhance the current Automated Fingerprint Identification System of England and Wales as well as the AFIS used by Scotland's police forces. Current services have allowed police forces to search their local fingerprints and crime scene marks against their own national databases. The new system, called IDENT1, will enable these fingerprints and marks to be searched against a combined database of more than six million ten-print records and more than one million marks (latents) in minutes.
One of the first new developments under IDENT1 and a major contribution of SAGEM will be the establishment of a national palm-print searching service. This service will enable forces, which already routinely collect palm prints from people that they arrest, to run national searches similar to fingerprint searches. National palm-print searching can have a considerable impact on crime investigation and detection as nearly twenty percent of all marks obtained from crime scenes in the United Kingdom are from palms. Further developments will include mobile fingerprint checking, facial imaging and video identification. 'The U.K. has set the standard for identification technology in the police service, enabling the fingerprint bureau to complete complex national searches and comparisons. This contract award will enable us to continue the good work and to provide the police service with further national identification services they need to help fight the modern, sophisticated and mobile criminal', said Dr. Fred Preston, director of Identification for the U.K. Police Information Technology Organization, after awarding the contract to Northrop Grumman. Jean-Paul Jainsky, Managing Director of the Security Division of Sagem commented 'We see this agreement as an excellent relationship for both companies and we are convinced that the unique and well established expertise of Sagem in the design and deployment of very large biometric identification systems will provide a dramatic acceleration to the upgrading of the United Kingdom's police forces. With this additional success, SAGEM reinforces its position as the world leader in the provision of large scale biometric solutions, a rapidly growing market.'
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Sagem Communication is organized in two Business Groups: Mobile Communication and Broadband Communication.Mobile Communication Sagem brand mobile phones enjoys a strong presence in world markets – Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America – thanks to continuous technological innovations, including build-in cameras, colour screens, multimedia messaging, WAP, GPRS, modules and modems, etc. The Mobile Communication Business Group operates a Research & Development center in Cergy, northwest of Paris, and a production plant at Fougères, in the Brittany region of France. Industrial and commercial partnerships with other telecom players have opened access to new international markets, including China and Brazil. China: a joint venture with Bird, the leading domestic manufacturer of mobile phones, called "Ningbo Bird Sagem Electronics Corporation Ltd". Brazil: a joint subsidiary with Gradiente, to handle the production and marketing of Sagem mobile phones. Broadband Communication The Broadband Communication Business Group designs, develops and produces a complete line of products for the high-growth broadband, video and printing markets. A proven capability for innovation led to technological breakthroughs that give Sagem products high-profile positions in these highly competitive markets: the first DLP flat-screen TVs in Europe, the first embedded image correction in terminals, DECT wireless phones with mobile phone functions (SMS, hi-fi ring tones, directory, etc.), TVs and set-top boxes with build-in card readers, etc. The Broadband Communication Business Group also deploys a Europe-wide network of subsidiaries, called National Sales Organization (NSO), that distributes Sagem brand products to all major European retailers. Sagem has signed a number of agreements with OEMs, meaning that Sagem products are used by the world’s leading brands and most European operators. |
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