In the decade plus since 9/11, the maritime industry has fallen short in closing the gap in port security as mandated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA). Because of costs, integration issues and limited resources, ports have been slow to adopt the technology necessary to read the biometric data contained in the now ubiquitous Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)....To begin, the TRL Systems engineers worked with 3M to decipher code and capture the data that would be needed to make it work with the 3M cogent reader.

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