Policy

• Enable Biometric Data Sharing:

  Support efforts to engage with DoW agencies, federal, state, local, tribal, and other mission partners to enable both military operations and business functions through robust information-sharing guided by applicable law and policy.

• Build Policy Foundations:

  Encourage the adoption and employment of biometrics through development of policies that assign unambiguous roles and responsibilities, support mission goals, and conform to strategic plans.

• Enable Partners:

  Provide advice and assistance to partners seeking to use DoW biometrics data across the range of military operations. Assistance may take the form of subject matter expertise, best practices, lessons learned, identification of existing policy gaps, policy letters, and memos.

• Protect Privacy:

  Develop and adhere to policies ensuring biometric data is stored securely and treated in accordance with applicable privacy and data protections.

Policy is critical for the assignment of roles and responsibilities across the DoW forensics and biometrics enterprise in order to ensure those responsibilities are carried out in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and directives. Through policy, DFBA acts to protect the integrity of biometric data it holds, by maintaining a System of Records Notice and Privacy Impact Assessment to ensure compliance with requirements deriving from the Privacy Act and the DoW Privacy Program. In addition, DFBA manages the interagency and international information-sharing agreements critical to harnessing biometrics as a force multiplier.