"On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app that federal immigration agents use as a method to identify people in the field, undocumented immigrants and United States citizens alike. The details, including the company behind the app, were published as part of DHS's 2025 AI Use Case Inventory, which federal agencies are required to release periodically."
"On its website, NEC advertises a facial recognition solution called Reveal, which it says can do one-to-many searches or one-to-one matches against databases of any size. A $23.9 million contract held between NEC and the DHS from 2020 to 2023 states that DHS was using NEC biometric matching products for "unlimited facial quantities, on unlimited hardware platforms, and at unlimited locations.""
"ICE says that the app can capture faces, "contactless" fingerprints, and photographs of identity documents. The app sends that data to CBP "for submission to government biometric matching systems.""
DHS's 2025 AI Use Case Inventory lists Mobile Fortify with entries for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and marks the app as in deployment. CBP says Mobile Fortify became operational at the beginning of May last year, and ICE received access on May 20, 2025. The inventory identifies NEC as the vendor, while ICE notes partial in-house development. NEC markets a Reveal facial-recognition product capable of one-to-many and one-to-one matching. A 2020–2023 $23.9 million NEC–DHS contract referenced unlimited facial quantities and platforms. The app captures faces, contactless fingerprints, and ID photos and forwards data to CBP for biometric matching.
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