Description
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking an enterprise-wide, scalable, and secure biometric matching software solution to support mission-critical identity verification, vetting, and investigative operations across all DHS Components. The solution must support multiple biometric modalities, such as facial recognition, fingerprint and palm print matching, iris recognition, voice, and biographic matching, and enable real-time and batch processing. The contractor shall ensure the solution meets DHS performance, security, privacy, and interoperability requirements and remains fully functional and compliant throughout the period of performance.
Key features of the required solution include:
• Support for multiple biometric modalities
• Real-time and batch processing capabilities
• Compliance with DHS policies and applicable federal and international frameworks
• Robust encryption and secure key management
• Comprehensive audit logging and chain-of-custody reporting
• Support for on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and optional edge deployments
• Integration with existing DHS systems via standardized APIs
• Capacity planning, high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, and elastic scalability