biometric systems will be of concern. Due to various government and commercial organizations developing a variety of biometric systems, interoperability challenges prevent information and data exchange. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) approved the Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management’s Registry of U.S. government Recommended Biometric Standards developed through a collaborative, interagency process. However, NSTC does not include proprietary data, which makes proprietary data non-interoperable, thus NCTC recommend U.S. government applications not to use proprietary image or signal formats when a national or international standard exists for images or signals related to that biometric. The military service’s tactical systems continue to have interoperability challenges with national systems due to both organizations not initiating procurement with a standard and attempting to meet standardization after fielding. For example, the U.S. Army’s Biometric Automated Toolkit (BAT) use proprietary reference representations to share information on watch lists, which make them less interoperable with standards-based systems than with one another. In general, standards help to promote interoperability. However, there are times when the use of a standard format in preference to a proprietary format can be detrimental and potentially limit functionality or flexibility. Biometrics continues to have interoperability challenges between U.S. entities and the rest of the world. Interoperability between international systems and the U.S. identification systems is expanding in areas of national security and e-passport projects for U.S. visa waiver countries, EURODAC, the Visa Information System and the new generation Schengen Information System. However, more work remains to ensure interoperability exists between Syria biometric
biometric systems will be of concern. Due to various government and commercial organizations developing a variety of biometric systems, interoperability challenges prevent information and data exchange. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) approved the Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management’s Registry of U.S. government Recommended Biometric Standards developed through a collaborative, interagency process. However, NSTC does not include proprietary data, which makes proprietary data non-interoperable, thus NCTC recommend U.S. government applications not to use proprietary image or signal formats when a national or international standard exists for images or signals related to that biometric. The military service’s tactical systems continue to have interoperability challenges with national systems due to both organizations not initiating procurement with a standard and attempting to meet standardization after fielding. For example, the U.S. Army’s Biometric Automated Toolkit (BAT) use proprietary reference representations to share information on watch lists, which make them less interoperable with standards-based systems than with one another. In general, standards help to promote interoperability. However, there are times when the use of a standard format in preference to a proprietary format can be detrimental and potentially limit functionality or flexibility. Biometrics continues to have interoperability challenges between U.S. entities and the rest of the world. Interoperability between international systems and the U.S. identification systems is expanding in areas of national security and e-passport projects for U.S. visa waiver countries, EURODAC, the Visa Information System and the new generation Schengen Information System. However, more work remains to ensure interoperability exists between Syria biometric