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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (48872)	4/12/2002 12:02:13 PM
From: nokomis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 208838

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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (48872)	4/12/2002 12:04:51 PM
From: Frederick Langford	Respond to of 208838

DARPA Extends Visionics Participation in Human ID at a Distance Program; Current Year Contract Calls for Nearly $1 Million in Additional Funding Business Editors MINNETONKA, Minn. & JERSEY CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2002--Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq:VSNX), the worldwide leader in identification technologies and systems, announced today that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has extended the company's participation in the Human ID at a Distance program through an additional $994,000 in funding to its current year contract. The original contract, signed in August 2000, was for approximately two million dollars for an initial two-year period, with a provision that it may be extended into a second phase, for a similar amount, for an additional two years depending on progress made during the first phase. The increase of more than 40% in the original funding brings the total contract value for the first phase to $3.1 million. The overall goal of the Human ID at a Distance program is to promote significant advancement in the state of the art of identification at a distance by combining different technologies, including facial recognition. In the wake of recent events, Visionics' technology has been identified as a powerful tool for combating and deterring crime. Its FaceIt(R) ARGUS system constantly searches video feeds of standard CCTV systems for faces and matches them against a watch list of wanted individuals. It alerts when a match occurs. Non-matches are immediately discarded from the system. FaceIt(R) ARGUS is being installed and evaluated at various airports across the country. Previous versions of the system have been in use for some time in the UK and other security installations worldwide. On February 22, 2002, Visionics Corporation announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement with Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq: IDNX) in an all-stock transaction. Visionics and Identix plan to file a joint proxy statement/prospectus with the SEC in connection with the transaction containing important information about each respective company, the transaction and related matters. The transaction is subject to certain closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and the approval of Visionics and Identix shareholders, and is currently expected to close in the calendar quarter ending June 30, 2002. Fred