GST's West Virginia Division is active in the support, research, and development of biometrics.

Identification Software Development

GST's West Virginia Division (GST•WVD) helped develop facial recognition software, entitled IdentiFace, which makes use of state-of-the-art technology to identify individuals from digital still images or video sequences. The application has been successfully tested at the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Florida with a database of well over 250,000 individuals.

Other biometric projects include:

• Designing, coordinating, and implementing National Institute of Justice's Biometrics Testing Laboratory.
• Developing Initial Assessment Reports on a wide variety of biometric devices.
• Serving as the primary system architects for AuthentiFace, a simulation access control system based on facial recognition technology.

Biometric Product Assessment, Evaluation, and Testing/Systems Design and Standards Development

GST•WVD has supported the Biometrics Fusion Center (BFC) within the Department of Defense (DoD) since 2002. The BFC operates and maintains a biometrics repository to support the testing and evaluation of biometrics, and provides operational back-up support to DoD organizations.

GST•WVD provides the BFC with enterprise-wide architecture design; product assessment, evaluation, and testing; database development, support, and administration; web design and development; network design, configuration, administration, and support; software engineering; software development; documentation and inventory control; configuration management; quality control and assurance; and project management support.

In addition, GST•WVD supports the Biometrics Management Office (BMO) by assisting in the development of enterprise-wide policies and standards, supporting their working groups, and coordinating communication with the BFC.

Biometric Systems Integration

During the summer of 2004, Lockheed Martin used GST•WVD's extensive biometric expertise to help them win a 5-year, $25 million contract to configure, build, and maintain a new Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) that will consolidate, store, and search fingerprint data collected worldwide by the DoD.

Biometric Security Systems

GST•WVD has also developed an access control application that uses biometric information to control access to a location. Smart Cards have personal information encoded into memory that can be matched against the biometric information provided by the individual at a secure point of entry. The biometric information must make a match for the person to gain access.

Biometric Scholarship

In 2004, when GST•WVD was TMC Technologies, Inc., TMC pledged $50,000 to the West Virginia University (WVU) Foundation, Inc. to create the first biometrics scholarship in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. The endowment, called "TMC Technologies Scholarship," provides undergraduate awards to a student enrolled in the Biometrics Track.

Recipients include Amie Marie King, who graduated in May 2005, and Sarah Lovell who is expected to graduate in May 2007.