Totally secure. How do you feel ?

Anteon is a General Dynamics company Delivering End-to-End Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) compliance. General Dynamics is a huge supplier to the military in the US - why should you be interested ?

HSPD-12 ? ...on August 27, 2004, the President signed HSPD-12 “Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors” into effect. The Directive requires the development and implementation of a mandatory, US Government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification for Federal employees and contractors.

Forthcoming deadlines include:

* October 27, 2006 – Commence FIPS 201, Part 2 compliance ; requiring the use of identity credentials for all new employees and contractors consistent with the Part II of the FIPS 201 Standard
* October 27, 2007 – Bring all existing employees and contractors into compliance including verification and/or complete background checks

Anteon claim their solutions are fully integrated, interoperable solutions that are both mobile and tactical, making drive-up credentialing (that means checking) and rapid onsite response available wherever and whenever you need it.... sounds just the thing a Gubment needs.

Get a brochure ....Mr. Ray Donahue.VP (703) 813-8453 rdonahue@anteon.com

Anteon (UK) is located on Newark Road Peterborough with 12,000 sq ft of office and training accommodation and 23,000 sq ft of engineering floorspace. The website claims the company

"Design, build, integration, supply and refurbishment of deployable and shelterised (WTF?) systems. The development and supply of biometric credential systems. Supply of imagery exploitation software and IT systems integration. Training and maintenance on supplied products and services."

Anteon (UK) have developed the Veri-cool system for fingerprint registration of schoolchildren (yes fingerprint) which can help combat (?) truancy and improve school efficiency with fast (?) simple student attendance registration, this also integrates with powerful software for:

1. Enrolment

2. Class Registration

3. Automated Guardian Alert
...identify absentees of a typical school in seconds, Detailed Parent or Guardian contact information is displayed for contact via SMS text, email or telephone in the fastest way possible. Using a UK network for texting provided by Netsecrets, a Parent or Guardian can be contacted in under 20 seconds, and they then have the option to call or text back to the school to confirm receipt of the message.

4. School-wide Absence Module

Probably most interesting is that Anteon (UK)/ Veri-Cool is a Technical partner to Capita Education Services who claim a client base of over 22,500 UK schools of which at least 5,000 use the latest .net software fully compatible with VeriCool readers and software.Paul Coase, Business Manager will tell you more 01733 296877 - sales@vericool.co.uk ... so far it doesn't seem to include Time & Attendance data for staff, teachers, cleaners, secretaries etc.,



"With the VeriCool suite of software there are no swipe cards and no one can steal your student's identity as their digital signature is unique to them, and them alone."



See what Impington Village College experience has been with the system

Now wasn't the CEO of Capita (founder 1984) one of the folks ... Rod Aldridge ....(see pic) who lent (£1 Mn. at least) money to the Labour Party and coincidentally was nominated for a peerage ? No worries, when he rsigned he said, "There have been suggestions that this loan has resulted in the group being awarded government contracts. This is entirely spurious."

So that's alright then.

PS. When you think the people who voted to allow all this, vote by filing through a doorway to be counted by human beings, who handwrite their attendance and then calculate the votes manually. Wunnerful thing technology.