U.S. Navy Leverages Biometric Authentication Technologies with GBL Systems and AWS

GBL Systems helped the U.S. Navy use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a biometric identification system that satisfies stringent security requirements, complex regulations, and mounting privacy concerns in an operationally efficient system for naval applications. GBL developed FutureOrb-ID, which takes advantage of the AI/ML capabilities of Amazon Rekognition and other AWS serverless and highly secure and compliant technologies.

In less than one year, FutureOrb-ID went from concept to prototype, which was shown at the 2022 FATHOMWERX Summit. At the demonstration, GBL used AWS DeepLens with artificial intelligence (AI) on-site and an AWS Cloud–powered backend to rapidly authenticate personnel who had opted in for using their facial biometrics. Within seconds, the system accurately recognized individuals as either approved for entrance (indicated by a green light), denied entrance (red light), or unknown to the system (yellow light).

GBL also demonstrated its FutureOrb-ID Ghosting (FOG) technology, which applies advanced AI and machine learning (ML) algorithms to images in order to mask biometric data. This enables naval personnel and others to share pictures online without the risk of biometrics being scraped for nefarious uses.

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