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2023 Bronze Medal Award

AWARD CITATION

The group is recognized for the successful creation and execution of the Mobile Fingerprinting Innovation Technology Challenge in 2022, which used an innovative approach to engage collaborators within NIST as well as external solvers and resulted in improved accuracy, performance, and efficiency of mobile fingerprinting applications.  The impact of their work includes critical advances in the development and demonstration of technology that takes advantage of the capabilities of modern smartphones to help law enforcement more effectively carry out their mission of protecting lives.

GROUP AWARD

John Beltz

Supervisory IT Specialist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Public Safety Communications Research Division

Gary Howarth

Physical Scientist
Communications Technology Laboratory

John Libert

Physical Scientist
Information Technology Laboratory, Information Access Division

Kenneth Ko

Computer Scientist
Information Technology Laboratory, Information Access Division

Bruce Bandini

Electronics Engineer
Information Technology Laboratory, Information Access Division