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Lockheed Martin & NEe Biometric 10 Alliance Lockheed Martin and NEC are combining complementary capabilities and resources in joint pursuit of new business opportunities in the rapidly expanding personal identification (ID) market. The pact is targeting positive ID and biometric solutions worldwide for law enforcement, banking, national citizenry and immigrant registries, electronic benefits and welfare enrollment. "The market for these types of solutions is expected to grow from between six and 10 times its current size by the year 2001," said John Hallal, president of Lockheed Martin

Information Systems. "With Lockheed Martin's experience as a global provider of information technology systems and integration services and NEe's capabilities as a leading international electronics manufacturer, the team is poised for success." NEC, which maintains a dominant market share in providing automated fingerprint ID systems (AFIS) to law enforcement and public safety agencies worldwide. Lockheed Martin has developed the world's most technically Fingerprint advanced Automated Identification System for the US FBI.

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