SBIR-STTR Award

This project focuses on the development of a soldier-borne biometric authentication system that facilitates sensing through ultra low cost instrumentation. The new technology will result in a disposable, physically small, low power, highly accurate and rugged "biometric assurance" sensor capable of deployment for the Army's Future Force Warrior. It will enable persistent authentication of the soldier's identity to the soldier-borne computer system, without requiring the soldier to perform unique actions outside of normal mission requirements. Real-time continuous liveness testing and operation regardless of whether the soldier is equipped with nuclear, biological, or chemical protective equipment will be part of the basic operational requirements for the system. Combining this low cost biometric technology and "enabling" it through the use of a highly accurate biometric measurement already developed by the United States Army, will result in a multimodal system with significant reductions to false match and false non-match occurrences. Laboratory experimentation associated with methods of persistent authentication and liveness testing will be conducted, along with the development of the necessary system architecture on how this technology should be integrated to prevent attacks or breaches of security to a node on the tactical Future Force network

Ultra-Scan proposes to develop a soldier-borne bioassurance system that facilitates identity and liveness sensing through ultra low cost instrumentation. The new technology will result in a disposable, physically small, low power, high accuracy bioassurance patch capable of deployment for the Armyís Future Force Warrior. It will enable persistent authentication of the soldierís identity to the wearable computer system without requiring any unique actions outside of normal mission requirements. Real-time continuous liveness testing and operation regardless of whether the soldier is equipped with nuclear, biological, or chemical protective equipment will be part of the basic operational requirements of the system which will provide full transparency. Combining this low cost bioassurance technology and activating it through the use of a highly accurate traditional multimodal biometric system already developed and successfully commercialized by Ultra-Scan for the Army will result in a system with significant reductions to false match and false non-match occurrences. Evaluation will be performed under conditions representative of combat, with harsh environmental conditions. This will result in the full development and delivery to the Army, a complete turnkey bioassurance system with all necessary hardware, software, and a soldier-worn computer simulator for training and demonstration, ready for seamless system integration and deployment.

Keywords:
Soldier-Borne Biometrics; Biometric Authentication; Skin Pattern Recognition; Multimodal Biometrics; Casualty Detection; Bioassurance Patch; Disposabl