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DOGE has arrived at the heart of Homeland Security's biometrics operations
Sources say the Elon Musk-led group is considering a system that agency leaders had hoped would replace its current biometrics database.
DHS has wanted to replace IDENT with HART, which is supposed to be hosted in the cloud and use a software-based approach to biometric matching. In 2022, the program failed when an attempt was made to enter “parallel operations,” which would have seen HART deployed alongside IDENT to measure its performance, two people said. In recent years, there was intense investment in getting the HART program back on track, a former senior DHS official told FedScoop.
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