** IDN reported that a seaport has purchased IDN’s IM2700 mobile Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) reader system. The contract, valued at $1 million, is the largest single TWIC sale in IDN’s history. 

The TWIC program is an initiative of the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Coast Guard to provide tamper-resistant biometric identification cards to port facility workers. TWIC cards have become a mandatory requirement for access to all U.S. ports as of April 15, 2009. 

IDN’s TWIC reader handheld device is used to validate TWIC cards. The company believes such a universal reader will ultimately be needed at each of the more than 175 seaports in the U.S. IDN’s TWIC reader is currently in use at major port facilities in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and the State of Washington.