One of FBI’s own honored with 2017 Women in Biometrics Award

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On Wednesday, Nov. 15th, at the Security Industry Association’s “SIA Honors Night,” the 2017 Women in Biometrics Awards will be presented. One of the honorees is the FBI’s own Kimberly Del Greco, Deputy Asst. Director of the Information Services Branch in the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. 

“Law enforcement caught me at a young age. I care about keeping the country safe and contributing to that,” says Del Greco.

In 2006 Del Greco created the Biometric Center of Excellence to explore the use of new technologies from voice, iris and face biometrics to Rapid DNA (a fully automated process of developing a DNA profile from a sample). 

Her proudest accomplishment is her work on the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. Working closely with the law enforcement community, the team delivered a new fingerprint algorithm with increased hit rate efficiency and quality.

Kimberly feels her most significant contribution was the collaboration she forged with other government agencies and the intelligence community to share biometric information, including fingerprint records. She reflects, “That was probably the most significant, getting all the agencies to coordinate, collaborate and share our biometrics together. From there we were able to upgrade our system and share more critical records.”

Kimberly will be presented with a 2017 Women in Biometrics award along with four other distinguished biometrics award honorees, selected from a pool of over one hundred nominees. Congratulations, Kimberly! 



Women in Biometrics 2017 winner: Kimberly Del Greco, FBI

By Gina Jordan, Nov. 6, 2017, for SecureIDNews


Women in Biometrics 2017 Awards