The State Department is seeking industry input on a biometric identity assurance system it is developing called Tactical High-Threat Operational Response, or THOR.The department is seeking industry information on how to develop the multi-modal system, which collects and matches fingerprint, iris and face data.According to the relevant request, the department's system “is comprised of both hardware and software”, and has two main components that together form an enterprise-ready, network-enabled collection, enrolment, submission, response aggregating, archiving and Identity Assurance architecture to support Diplomatic Security, High Threat Post operations worldwide.The THOR Enrolment Collection Station subsystem is a fully Stand-Alone capability that includes biometric collection, enrolment, identification, search, import, export, tracking and record updating on a Window 7 desktop platform, several mobile platform such as a laptop, tablet, android or SEEK, etc.Meanwhile, the DS THOR Broker will be a subsystem, a full Client-Server-Database n-Tier architecture, and can operate in a fully networked environment, across a LAN or WAN. Together, these two subsystems form an enterprise-ready, network enabled collection, enrollment, submission, response aggregating, archiving and Identity Assurance architecture to support Diplomatic Security, High Threat Post operations worldwide.
State Dept wants biometric input on ID system
