The results reaffirm the company's leadership in one of the industry's most demanding and operationally relevant biometric evaluations. COURBEVOIE, France, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEMIA Public Security, the leading provider of secure and trusted biometric-based solutions, today announced that its facial recognition algorithm has achieved top performance in the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE) 1:N Identification benchmark, reaffirming the company's leadership in one of the industry's most demanding and operationally relevant biometric evaluations. The latest NIST FRTE 1:N Identification results place IDEMIA Public Security #1 in most of the tested scenarios, including the benchmark's two most operationally significant identification scenarios: - #1 in all Mugshot Identification types, including the largest evaluation conducted by NIST against a gallery of 12 million identities, demonstrating robustness and exceptional accuracy at a national scale. - #1 in Visa Border Identification, delivering a significant improvement in performance with identification errors reduced by more than 40% compared with IDEMIA Public Security's previous 2025 submission. - Top Tier in Fairness for False Positive Identification Rate, ensuring that users not only use the most accurate and efficient technology to date but can also be confident that they comply with the most demanding AI regulations in the world. The FRTE 1:N Identification benchmark evaluates how accurately facial recognition systems identify an individual by searching one face against millions of enrolled identities. Considered one of the world's leading benchmarks for facial recognition technology, it evaluates performance in real-world scenarios including mugshot identification, visa processing, border management, law enforcement investigations, and national identity programs. As governments and agencies process millions of travelers and identity transactions every day, achieving both exceptional accuracy and scalability have become essential. These latest NIST results demonstrate IDEMIA Public Security's ability to deliver highly accurate identification across some