RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daon, the award-winning global provider of identity assurance software and services, announced today that its software has been selected by prime contractor Unisys to power the Government of Mexico’s SNIP (National Service of Personal Identification) program. The Daon platform will deliver multimodal biometrics fusion, combining iris, finger and face records to maximize accuracy.

According to Terry Hartmann, Vice President, Identification and Credentialing Solutions, Unisys Corporation, “We are pleased to have Daon as a member of our delivery team. With a population of 110 million people and incorporating multimodal fusion, the Mexican government has launched an extremely advanced project. Our experience working with Daon and its platform around the globe has been excellent. Their proven, standards-based identity platform fits in an open and complementary way within Unisys overall LEIDA identity solutions framework.”

Daon provides a centralized platform and client biometric infrastructure for a variety of uses including employee credentialing, government benefits programs, trusted identity services, border management, national ID, airport e-gate systems and immigration control. Daon’s innovative Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software, industry recognized expertise and large scale program experience enables the delivery of solutions that reduce risk, schedule and cost.

Commenting on this latest award, Daon’s CEO, Tom Grissen said, “The Mexico SNIP project is the world’s largest multimodal and fusion project of its type. We are proud to support the Government of Mexico in providing an advanced, flexible and open solution. Our COTS platform will enable this vital program to rapidly reach operational status and we congratulate Unisys and its consortium partner AXTEL on this impressive contract award.”

About Daon

Daon is a leading provider of identity assurance software products focused on meeting the needs of governments and commercial organizations worldwide. Daon supports customers and system integrators in building enterprise solutions requiring the highest level of security, performance, scalability, reliability and privacy. Daon’s COTS products are scalable, flexible and proven in the most challenging real-world environments and have been selected to secure more than 460 million identities around the globe. The Daon product suite covers every aspect of identity management from pre-enrollment and identity proofing to enrollment, multimodal capture, adjudication, credentialing and provisioning; and provides a technology agnostic approach which gives leverage to the customer. Daon’s offices are located in Washington DC, New York, Canberra, Singapore, London and Dublin.

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