NATIONAL BIOMETRIC SECURITY PROJECT

educational services, namely, conducting seminars, workshops[, and conferences] in the field of biometrics; publication of text books in the field of biometrics

technical consultation and research, and product research and development, related to biometric technologies for use in improving civilian infrastructure security; establishing policy guidelines for the use and deployment of biometric technologies to improve critical civilian infrastructure; assessing present and future biometric security technologies; and developing and testing criteria on which to evaluate the effectiveness of biometric security technologies; conducting audits of the security needs of certain critical civilian infrastructure