| West Virginia is your best access point to the highly competitive biometrics market. West Virginia’s unique biometrics cluster offers the resources and services you need to compete. A thriving network of large and small biometrics companies, government agencies and universities is in place, giving you access to key decision-makers, researchers and workers.
Technology business services
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West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation: Your source for business services and resources
Focused on training and supporting the high-technology industry, the WVHTC Foundation offers commercialization, business collaboration, capitalization assistance, technology management, an extensive affiliate program and world-class office and lab space.
- National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Certification Lab (Criterian Independent Labs): All commercial off-the-shelf software vendors who want their products used in government applications used in secure systems must have their product NIAP certified. Criterian Independent Labs provides NIAP certification, having special expertise in biometrics products.
- The I-79 Technology Park: The I-79 Technology Park nurtures the knowledge worker and provides world-class facilities and laboratory space – key components to success.
- INNOVA Commercialization Group: INNOVA Commercialization Group provides business development services required to take biometrics products from prototype to market, including product evaluation, business planning, market research and U.S.-based marketing strategy. INNOVA also provides access to early stage investment capital.
National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
- The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) is a full-service technology-management center, providing access to federal technology information, knowledge management and digital learning services, technology assessment, technology marketing, assistance in finding strategic partners, and electronic-business development services.
Research universities
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West Virginia University: Your source for cutting-edge research, people, and technology
As the anchor to the West Virginia biometrics cluster, West Virginia University in Morgantown leads biometrics technology and product development in the United States.
- Biometrics degree program: Biometric companies and users in West Virginia take advantage of the university’s biometrics systems program, which provides students and future workers with a firm foundation in computer science, electrical and computer engineering meshed with an understanding of biology, physiology and forensics necessary to design, implement and evaluate automated biometrics systems.
- Biometric Knowledge Center (BKnC): BKnC provides biometrics research and workforce training and development services to corporate and government users.
- Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR): CITeR provides advanced research, interdisciplinary training to scientists and engineers, and biometrics technology transfer to companies and governments.
- West Virginia University Office of Technology Transfer: The Office of Technology Transfer assists companies in commercializing biometrics knowledge and intellectual property developed at the university. The office also helps companies access the university’s extensive biometrics resources, R&D and knowledge.
Marshall University
- Institute for Development of Entrepreneurial Advances (IDEA): IDEA focuses on the commercialization of technology and science developed throughout the region and on the Marshall campus.
- West Virginia Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) Laboratory: The Combined DNA Index System enables federal, state and local crime labs to exchange and compare DNA profiles electronically, linking crimes to each other and to convicted offenders. The West Virginia CODIS Laboratory at Marshall University creates DNA profiles from blood samples of certain convicted offenders.
- DNA Analysis Laboratory: The laboratory at Marshall University performs DNA analysis on human blood samples using two DNA technologies, RFLP or restricted fragment length polymorphism and a procedure called PCR or polymerase chain reaction.
Biometrics companies/government agencies
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Criminal Justice Identification Services Division (CJIS)
- CJIS, the largest fingerprint repository in the world, is the focal point and central storehouse for criminal justice information services within the FBI in the United States.
U.S. Department of Defense
Biometrics Fusion Center (BFC)
- The Biometrics Fusion Center, the prime biometrics technology research and development facility within the Department of Defense, establishes testing standards and performance measures for biometrics technologies in defense applications.
National Biometric Security Project (NBSP)
- NBSP provides unbiased support for the application of biometric technology: from development of standards to focused testing, research, training and education for all levels of government as well as that portion of the private sector with responsibility for security of the civil national infrastructure. The NBSP mission is to assist in the effective use of biometrics in a variety of initiatives designed to improve national readiness in anti-terrorism and homeland security.
Lockheed Martin is the largest provider of IT services, systems integration and training to the U.S. federal government.
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) is one of the largest technology and systems integrators to commercial and government customers in the U.S.
EWA Government Systems provides IT solutions and integration to military, federal government and commercial agencies.
ISS (Internet Security Systems) provides Internet security technology.
Azimuth™ Systems tests wireless networks and devices.
Other companies include KeyLogic Systems, STS International, TMC Technologies, SYTEX and New-Bold Enterprises, among many others.
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