Steve,
Your find on Alaska was today's PR. But your find had numbers:
"WIN-WIN SCENARIO. The Public Safety Department recently bought five LS-21 live-scan digital fingerprint systems from NEC Technologies Inc. of Itasca, Ill.
The systems will transfer digital fingerprints between law enforcement agencies in the Western Identification Network. WIN is an automated fingerprint identification system linking Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon and Utah and four federal agencies: the Secret Service, IRS, Postal Inspection Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service. The $294,650 contract includes a one-year maintenance agreement.
LS-21 runs on a 233-MHz Pentium II PC with 32M RAM and a 4G hard drive. The LS-21 units save the fingerprints in a digitized law enforcement format established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology."
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We have to assume that NEC gets a cut of the contract, so IDX's share is less. And we also have to assume that IDX believes its share is confidential business information.
A couple of unrelated points:
* Rob mentioned ASCOM has sold stock to make a profit. Clearly, ASCOM is not a philanthropy, but they have not reduced their IDX holdings in the past couple of years. They still hold about 20% of the shares.
* Speculating on O'Hare: Frustrated by one of the WEB's slowest search engines on THOMAS, I can't get hard information on legislation right now. However, one possible hold up on an O'Hare announcement may be the appropriations process for federal FY99, which is just getting passed into law. If Congress is funding any cargo security airport improvements for next year, no one could announce O'Hare in any forward-looking way until the funding bill passes. That passage could happen today, and then we would wait on the President's signature.
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