12 March 2002. Thanks to Chris Brown <suethebastards@onebox.com>

These documents describe Dallas-Fort Worth airport contracting to use Visionics facial recognition system for security, airport staff discussions of aviation security and vendor products, and related airport security matters. Documents obtained by Mr. Brown by an "Open Records" request.

1. 38 pages (PDF, 910 KB): Open Records correspondence; initial Visionics contract in December 2001 with list of equipment; correspondence among airport staff and government officials about its effectiveness, costs and legal issues; minutes of meetings; costs of the system and invoices; security briefings; discussions of alternative systems such as "wearable computers" and identification kits.

2. 42 pages (PDF, 2.3 MB): Solicitations and promotional materials from other security vendors such as Dernier ID Limited, UK, general discussions of aviation security legislation, policy and funding; Visionics equipment and costs; working group minutes; aviation security new reports; FAA security recommendations; minutes of RCTA Special Committee meetings on airport access control; itemization of security vendor presentations.

3. 31 pages (PDF, 2.2 MB): Itemization of security vendor presentations; Open Records notification to staff; report on FAA "aggressive" security expansion; news reports of airport security systems; InfraGuard warnings on aviation security, computer hacking and virus attacks; security vendor brochures.