Biometrics Exploitation Science & Technology (BEST)

Program Manager

For information contact: dni-iarpa-info@iarpa.gov

Program Information

IARPA-BAA-09-02

The Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology (BEST) Program seeks to significantly advance the state-of-the-science for biometrics technologies. The overarching goals for the program are:

  1. To significantly advance the Intelligence Community's (IC) ability to achieve high-confidence match performance, even when the features are derived from non-ideal data
  2. To significantly relax the constraints currently required to acquire high fidelity biometric signatures

Related Program(s)

Research Area(s)

  • Biometrics
  • Facial recognition
  • Sensors & perception

Related Publications

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