Homeland Security centralizes control over the government’s largest biometrics database

Homeland Security centralizes control over the government’s largest biometrics database

The Department of Homeland Security is streamlining control over the federal government’s largest database of biometric data, placing its chief information officer in control of the Office of Biometric Identity Management, a small but powerful agency technology office. Antoine McCord, a former Marine and intelligence veteran who took over as DHS’s CIO in March, is now charged with overseeing one of the largest biometrics systems in the world, in…