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Unisys Selects Animetrics to Deliver Face Recognition Products to DOD

Announced today Animetrics has been chosen by Unisys Corporation to provide advanced facial biometric technologies and services to fulfill a DOD Task Order for Synthetic Identification Models.

15 Mar 2010

Animetrics Wins New Contract to Develop Facial Recognition System for Moving Vehicles

Animetrics Inc. announced today that it has been selected as a subcontractor to Stanley, Inc. (NYSE: SXE) on an award to develop an advanced facial recognition surveillance system for use on moving vehicles for the U.S. Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.

15 Mar 2010

USPTO Awards Patents to Animetrics for Facial Biometric Technologies

Animetrics Inc., a face recognition biometric solution provider, has been granted patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), entitled “Facial Recognition System and Method,” “Generation of Image Database for Multifeatured Objects,” and “Viewpoint-Invariant Image Matching and Generation of 3D Models from 2D Imagery,” all breakthrough technologies that are already revolutionizing the use of face biometrics in security, surveillance and computer vision.

15 Mar 2010

SwissINSO Installs New Laboratory for Optical Characterization of Solar Panels

SwissINSO Holding Inc. (OTCBB: SWHN) announced today the expansion of its research and development (R&D) capabilities in partnership with LESO, the solar applied research laboratory of EPFL, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne Switzerland.

15 Mar 2010

Huawei Honors NeoPhotonics with 'Core Partner' Designation

NeoPhotonics today announced that the company has achieved “Core Partner” status with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., a global leading provider of next generation telecommunications equipment.

15 Mar 2010

Newly Developed Light Activation Technique Boosts Biomedical Research

Using a novel light activation technique, Scripps Research Institute scientists have been able to turn molecules with only a modest ability to fight specific proteins into virtual protein destroyers.

15 Mar 2010

NAPCO to Display New Fingerprint Reading Keypad at ISC West 2010 Show

NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of high performance electronic security equipment for over 30 years, today announced it will be introducing many new breakthrough products at the security industry’s key tradeshow, the International Security Conference (ISC) West, which this year will be going on simultaneously with the Public Security Safety Expo.

12 Mar 2010

New Near-Infrared Label VivoTag 680 XL from VisEn Medical

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new VivoTag® 680 XL fluorescent dye for labeling biomolecules in a broad range of in vitro and in vivo imaging applications.

12 Mar 2010

Lockheed Martin to Support U.S. Army's Electro-Optical Fire Control System

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to support the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (TADS/PNVS) and Modernized TADS/PNVS (M-TADS/PNVS) systems on the AH-64 Apache helicopter at the Arizona Support Center.

12 Mar 2010