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To: Hockeyfan who wrote (12585)	3/1/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

An update on the Fort Sill IDT biometric smart card pilot from the March 1, 1999 American Banker: "Fort Sill, Okla., the one Army base that uses the fingerprint form of biometrics, is 'very happy' with it, but the technology is too expensive to deploy more broadly, Mr. Grippo [a U.S. Treasury Department official] said. As prices come down, 'I think biometric protection of these kinds of cards in our closed military environments and other government environments is our direction.' "Fort Sill is showing that biometric protection of smart cards is 'close to ready for prime time,' said Oscar R. Pieper, president of Identicator Technology Inc., the California-based fingerprint system vendor that worked with the Treasury on the project."