Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door

The Defense Department’s biometrics program primarily focuses on the use of biometrics as a countermeasure — to identify potential adversaries in the field — but the Pentagon also is testing its use for access control.

In mid-January, the Army concluded a 90-day pilot program for employing scans for base access control. Since October, employees and visitors at the VIP entrance of the Defense Department’s Mark Center in Northern Virginia had used iris and fingerprint readers — along with their ID cards — to enter.

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