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April 15, 2008 - Toronto, Canada - Len Goodman from the DRDC Centre for Security Science will be delivering a keynote presentation on Biometrics for Defence & Security: Coordinating a Horizontal Government Approach to Science & Technology at the 2008 Government Technologies Conference and Expo. Now in its fifth year, this is Canada's leading IT event and it will be hosted April 15 -16, 2008 at the Design Exchange to Toronto Ontario.
Len Goodman is Portfolio Manager, Surveillance, Intelligence & Interdiction, Public Security Technical Program, DRDC Centre for Security Science. The Centre for Security Sciences is housed within Defence R&D Canada (DRDC), an agency within the Department of National Defence, serving the Canadian Forces S&T requirements.
The recent introduction of the Public Security Technical Program (PSTP), further broadens the S&T leadership mandate into areas of: all-hazards risk analysis, capability engineering, protection of critical infrastructures, enabling interoperability of technologies, integrating voice and data communications, enhancing transportation and border security, ensuring psychosocial and community resiliency/preparedness, and surveillance, intelligence and interdiction, First Responder safety, and ensuring realistic standardization for emergency management practices. One of the key technology foci for the PSTP program is biometrics for identity verification and access management. Current and future biometrics technologies range from palm/fingerprints, hand vein patterns, and iris scans, through to a fusion of non-invasive/transparent physiological indices, instant DNA capture, and gait/voice/face analysis. Many challenges remain before widespread employment of biometrics can be achieved in border, transport and critical infrastructure security domains remain however. These include issues of reliability, speed/convenience, privacy, database interoperability, compatibility, technology leakage, and spoofing.
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About The Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC):
The Centre for Security Science is a joint endeavour of Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) and Public Safety Canada that was created in 2006. DRDC is an agency of the Department of National Defence, responding to the scientific and technological needs of the Canadian Forces and national security communities. With a broad scientific program, DRDC actively collaborates with industry, international allies, academia, other government departments and the national security community.
About the 2008 Government and Health Technologies Conference & Expo:
The 2008 Government and Health Technologies Conference and Expo will focus on the latest IT products and solutions being developed and sought after in the healthcare and public service sector, including Web 2.0, Patient Monitoring Systems, Document Management, Business Intelligence, Mobile Data Systems, RFID Solutions, Biometrics and much more.
As one of Canada's leading annual IT conference and exposition, the event features ground breaking IT applications that aim to educate key IT professionals, Government officials, developers, architects, engineers and medical professionals with the necessary tools and techniques for the reliable, effective management of all public information services across Canada. For more information about the event, please visit http://gov.wowgao.com
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