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The American Civil Liberties Union is taking several US government agencies to court claiming they have refused to comply with freedom of information requests related to the transparency of law enforcement usage of facial recognition technology.

The FBI, United States Army, and other US agencies are licensing Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 to develop more realistic training software for their employees.

UPEK has released its new TCEFx1 USB fingerprint module, which uses the only silicon-based fingerprint sensor certified by the FBI for US government applications.

Lockheed Martin has received a ten-year, $1 billion contract from the FBI to develop and maintain the Next Generation Identification system, which will expand fingerprint capacity to double the size of its current database, and incorporate palm print, iris, and facial recognition capabilities.