Athena Sciences Launches Enhanced Latent Workstation for Cloud-Based Biometric Examinations

By admin | June 4, 2025

Fairmont, WV — Athena Sciences Corporation has released a powerful new upgrade to its Themis™ biometric software suite: a Latent Workstation purpose-built for preparing, enhancing, and managing latent print images. Designed in close consultation with forensic examiners, the new application brings expanded functionality to both pre- and post-match workflows, streamlining how latent images are processed…

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Army Awards Athena Partner Nation ABIS Contract

By admin | October 10, 2022

Fairmont, WV — Athena Sciences Corporation (“Athena”) has received a contract from the DoD PM Biometrics to install, configure, and operate an Automated Biometrics Identification System (ABIS) for a US Partner Nation through a foreign military sale. Using various biometric modalities (e.g., finger, face, iris) the ABIS will perform biometric matching to assist in establishing…

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Athena’s “Every Camera a Biometric Checkpoint” Project Selected for Army SBIR Award

By admin | July 31, 2020

Fairmont, WV – Athena is pleased to announce its selection for the award of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project A20.1-073, Every Camera a Biometric Checkpoint. This Phase 1 SBIR is sponsored by the project management office of defense biometrics (PM DoD Biometrics). The state of West Virginia is also contributing matching funds. Athena’s research seeks…

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Athena Receives Governor’s Commendation for International Market Entry Award

By admin | December 10, 2019

Charleston, WV – Athena Sciences received the Governor’s Commendation for International Market Entry Award, recognizing West Virginia businesses that exported to a new country in the previous year. Athena received this award for exporting biometric system solutions to Afghanistan and Iraq. Athena was one of ten companies to receive this award for the first time.…

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Athena Joins the Center for Identification Technology Research

By admin | October 25, 2019

Fairmont, WV – Athena has joined the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR). CITeR is the only National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) focusing on serving its affiliates in the rapidly growing areas of identity science and biometric recognition through an interdisciplinary group of faculty, researchers, and students. According to Athena CEO, Dan…

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Athena Selected for DHS HART Biometrics Contract

By admin | September 28, 2017

Fairmont, WV – The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected the Northrop Grumman Team for award of the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) multi-modal biometrics contract. Athena is a subcontractor on this team. “We are excited to build upon our four year relationship with Northrop Grumman as a provider of multi-modal biometrics design and…

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Athena Releases Themis™ Biometrics Examination Workstation

By admin | September 16, 2016 |

Fairmont, WV – Athena Sciences Corporation is pleased to announce the release of Themis™, a cloud-ready multi-modal biometrics examination workstation. The Themis™ Biometrics Examination Workstation presents ANSI NIST ITL biometrics images to any HTML5 compliant examiner device or workstation, manages examination queues, and provides image analysis tools to assist in adjudication. According to Athena CEO,…

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Athena Opens Biometrics Research and Development Office in Morgantown, WV

By admin | May 1, 2016

Morgantown, WV – In a move to enhance Athena investment in biometric product development, Athena opened a new office in Morgantown, WV. “Our Morgantown location will simplify access to biometrics expertise by virtue of the biometrics programs offered by West Virginia University and resulting talent pool”, according to Dan McCaugherty, Athena President and CEO. “We…

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