A contract to provide the US State Department with passport electronics and software has been awarded to Thales and Infineon.

There are a number of networks and research groups that exist outside of our community that could bring value to our work. The aim of this article is to illustrate this with reference to a personal case study undertaken over the past nine months.

In this round up of recent new secure document issues, we record the new Australian R Series passport and the new Finnish passport and ID card.

HID, a leader in trusted identity solutions, has been awarded with a contract to supply Bahrain with an end-to-end ePassport solution.

Infineon Technologies, the German Federal Printing Office and the Fraunhofer AISEC gave a demonstration at Trustech of an electronic passport that meets the security requirements of the quantum computing era.

After a year and a half of planning with a team of designers and technology experts from various Belizean government departments, the administration has introduced a new passport.

As a long-term partner of Nepal, IDEMIA has already provided national ID cards, an Automated Fingerprint Identification System and Machine-Readable Passports, and is now implementing an ePassport solution for the country.

Last month, IDN reported on Landqart’s partnership with Tech5 to provide a combined solution for a certificate-based document that is durable, secure and biometrically-verifiable.

The Federal Office of the Swiss Police has announced that citizens of Switzerland will have a new passport with a new design from the end of October.

On 27 June, the Brazilian federal government unveiled a new passport design and issued the first new national identity card (CIN).