Day: October 19, 2018

WorldReach Software has signed a multi-year contract with the UK Home Office for the provision of a smartphone-based digital enrolment capability. The new digital service will allow identity verification to be done remotely using smartphone apps including ePassport chip reading and authentication, biometric facial matching and liveness detection. WorldReach’s Know Your Traveller (KYT) platform is […]

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A fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communications satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, has successfully launched on behalf of the US Air Force. From Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocketed into Earth’s atmosphere carrying the communications satellite on board. Now in orbit, the satellite will undergo rigorous […]

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Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel are the first overseas students to complete the Weapons Tactics Instructor Course; a grueling seven-week training initiative for the US Marine Corps. Chinook pilots and aircrew from RAF Odiham temporarily relocated to Marine Air Corps Station Yuma in southern Arizona to complete the course. While there, they trained alongside more […]

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