Big Army is about to join its Special Operations brethren in being able to fingerprint or optically scan a suspect on the battlefield and positively identify them within minutes. The capability, called SEEK II, comes in a 3 lb. box with a camera and a fingerprint pad made by Crossmatch Technologies.
The Army has long relied on the Biometrics Automated Toolset (BAT) and Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIDE) biometric systems, which have been very successful at logging people into biometric databases, but at times have seen complaints from soldiers that have limited value in bright sunlight. But with SEEK II, which is under evaluation here at the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation exercise, soldiers on the ground will be able to fingerprint a suspect, and receive an answer back within five minutes whether or not the suspect is already in the system.
The Army is sending 54 handheld systems to Afghanistan in July, says Michael Piesen of the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center, along with six vehicle-mounted, and four fixed-site networking boxes that allow the handhelds' 3G connectivity to the database. Soldiers can be up to 5 km away from the box and still connect. Special Operations forces have been using the SEEK II in the field for some time, Craig Archer, chief of the identity and intelligence branch of the U.S. Special Forces Command said recently, and have found that 40 percent of the suspects they scan in the field are already in the database.
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