Case Study: a major U.S. international airport automates workforce badging and FBI screening with HID Global

HID Global Helps Make Major U.S. International Airport One of the First to Automate Workforce ID Badging Tied to Real-Time FBI Screening Data

A major U.S. international airport was struggling with an inefficient and cumbersome process for managing the ID badges for its tens of thousands of employees, vendors, and contractors. Its legacy systems resulted in slow biometric enrollment, error-prone manual workflows, and an inability to integrate with other data sources, including real-time FBI screening. The airport turned to HID Global to address these challenges, leveraging products like HID SAFE for Aviation identity management software and HID Lumidigm fingerprint sensors.

HID Global’s end-to-end solution automated the airport's workforce badging, integrating its systems with the FBI's Rap Back service for continuous criminal monitoring. This allowed the airport to review badge privileges within days of an employee's arrest instead of waiting for a standard two-year review. The results were transformative: HID Global cut fingerprint enrollment time from 30 minutes to just two minutes, reduced the time for annual badge audits by half, and enabled the secure issuance of approximately 30,000 credentials annually, positioning the airport for future growth.