The military wants to use facial recognition and advanced machine learning methods to monitor children at the Basic Child Development Center and plans to launch a pilot program at Ford Jackson in the future.
Military contract officials built a face recognition and video analysis system for SAM.gov and Ford Jackson sought a vendor capable of integrating it into CDC’s closed-circuit television system.
If successful, the system will be used to “monitor the health and well-being of children at CDC,” according to the performance work report.
“The use of closed-circuit television video-recording is common at CDC for security purposes, although these feeds are not continuously monitored at all times during live operation,” the notes state. of request.
The Center hopes that the incorporation of video analytics into the CCTV system will enable continuous monitoring of students, “in addition to human CCTV surveillance” and the ability to automatically alert situations to their presence.
The current contract proposal calls for the selection of such a system at the CDC’s Scale Avenue in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, “to demonstrate the success or failure of implementing commercial video analysis and other artificial intelligence technologies available to existing cameras.” in the system.”
“The system design should integrate with existing military CDC systems, demonstrate technical capabilities and provide business case analysis.”
The Performance Job Profile describes the privacy and cyber security standards that existing systems and tools and contractors must meet to add new tools.
It said the new system does not have its own authority to operate or certify a system that meets a limited number of cyber security standards prior to ATO-deployment. Military officials plan to use the existing ATO system, which has a liaison agreement, to check inter-agency security.
The contract is expected to last a year and the initial designs will be paid for within the first four months. The new system will be installed and tested for operation within eight months, according to the schedule included in the request.
According to a new report from the Office of Accountability Government, three-quarters of major federal agencies use at least one facial recognition technology within their departments, with more implementations sent out by 2023. .
According to a congressional oversight survey of 24 major federal agencies, 18 agencies have adopted some form of facial recognition technology by 2020.
Events reported at GAO include full utility programs:
Six agencies use facial recognition in criminal investigations, or use the McShot database to identify suspects, or, “in some cases, agencies to identify victims of crimes such as exploited children.” use of commercial organizations to compare publicly available images such as social media,” the report said.
The five agencies use facial recognition for physical security, either by providing access to checkpoints or by videotaping photographs that match the list.
The most widespread use of facial recognition, used by 16 agencies, is for cyber security, which includes digital access to government-provided smartphones and other devices. Two agencies have announced that they will use facial recognition to provide access to secure federal websites.
Agencies are said to have used a variety of facial recognition techniques, including verification – the technology used to tell a person who they are, i.e. taking a photo and comparing it to a passport. Or to do with the image of a driver’s license – and identify – attempts to determine who the person is by matching an image against a database of photos.
The report also covers techniques used to detect facial expressions, which can be used to determine if a person is present in an image and how many are not being identified. Is.
Of the 18 agencies that used facial recognition in 2020, 17 established their own set-up or acquired business technology or contacted another federally-owned organization. Three agencies reported access to state and local government-owned organizations, and six accessed organizations owned and operated by commercial vendors, including Clearview AI, Vigilant Solutions and Acquaint FaceIT.
The GAO report has a table that breaks down the number of facial recognition systems each agency owns:
Business area: An organization used for physical security.
Department of Defense: Seven organizations used for physical security, national law enforcement, national security and defense and other purposes.
Energy field: A system used to protect the body.
Department of Health and Human Services: Three systems used for physical security, national law enforcement, and digital access/cyber security.
Department of Homeland Security: Four agencies used for national law enforcement, border security and transportation, and national security and security.
Judiciary: Seven systems used for physical security, national law enforcement, national security and defense and other purposes.
State Department: Organization used for border security and transportation and national security and security.
Public Administration of Services: A system used for digital access / Internet security.
NASA: An organization used for “other” purposes, including identifying employees if they forget their badges.
Six agencies reported that they did not use any facial recognition technology
