The FY2027 President's Budget requests — for IDENT/Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology, within Homeland Security's Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account.
FY2025–FY2026
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $22.8M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $22.8M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
The HART system is a unified biometric platform that strengthens National security and public safety for DHS and its partners. HART supports multiple biometric modalities, is scalable for future needs, and ensures efficient, accurate identity verification across DHS missions. Funding will cover the development, deployment, and integration of advanced identity services, biometric tools, and enhanced analytics to meet the evolving needs of front-line personnel and decision-makers. ' Continued development of HART Core Foundational Infrastructure. ' Began parallel operations with IDENT and HART to refine HART system performance & message comparisons. ' Began operational assessment for production testing by an independent authority to focus on measures of performance and effectiveness. ' Operational assessment for production testing by an independent authority to focus on measures of performance and effectiveness. ' Implement final on-boarding of latest IDENT stakeholders into HART. ' Initiate planning of future HART capabilities based on the requirements prioritized by HART stakeholders. ' Complete time sensitive, post-IOC, DHS priorities such as implementation of new biometric data sharing with key international mission ' Begin onboarding international partners to bilateral identity information exchanges under the Biometric Data Sharing Platform (BDSP). ' Expand outbound biometric queries from ICE, CBP, USCIS, and Border Patrol (BP) to participating Enhanced Border Security Partnership (EBSP) partners, which will allow DHS to significantly strengthen immigration processing, improve risk assessment accuracy, and reinforce 2Key milestone events for FY 2025 and FY 2026 were or will be conducted under the Management Directorate (MGMT). FY27 milestone events will be conducted under the Office of the Secretary Office of Biometric Identity Management - PPA IDENT/Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology
Extracted from Management Directorate, p. 5. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
1 linked contract. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSHQDC17J00370 last action FY2023 | PERATON INC. | Medium confidence | $163.5M |
Confidence mix · 1 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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