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Office of Biometric Identity Management ( OBIM )

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The Office of Biometric Identity ( OBIM ) is the Lead DHS Entity for Biometric Identity Management Services Across Government .

The need ed for biometrics con- tinues to grow among

DHS Components , interagency stakeholders , the Intelligence Community , and international mission part- ners , to support critical national security priori-

OBIM provides biometric match , store , share , and analyze services to DHS and mission partners , and is focused on delivering accurate , timely , and high-assurance bio- metric identity information and analysis .

OBIM ’ s overall goals and priori- ties include improving biometric services and access to expanded biometric data to enable DHS oper- ational missions .

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