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Perot Systems Awarded $12 Million to Assist INS

Government Services unit to help INS digitize biometric records, continue support of immigrant data search system

Piano, TX - November 11, 2002 - Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Perot
Systems Government Services, Inc. (PSGS), announced today the award of two delivery orders to support the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS). Potential value to PSGS is estimated at $12 million over the two-year term of the orders.

PSGS will help the INS' Forensic Document Laboratory digitize eight million biometric records, including fingerprints,
photographs, and signatures. The lab is the federal government's forensic laboratory dedicated almost exclusively to
examining fraudulent documents. The effort will enable INS to include a much broader range of documents in its
comprehensive data searches.

In the second delivery order, awarded in April of this year, PSGS will continue its support of INS' MiDAS system. The MiDAS
system was developed by PSGS in 2000 to enable more efficient searches of historical immigrant data. PSGS provides
software development, systems integration, and microfilm conversion services in support of this project.

"We are proud to have this opportunity to assist the INS in their homeland defense responsibilities," said Greg Bedner, CEO of
Perot Systems Government Services. "Our support for the Forensic Document Lab, coupled with our ongoing work on MiDAS,
exactly fits the profile for what we call perfect work - meaningful projects that support the mission of important clients."

About Perot Systems

Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services and business solutions. Through its flexible and
collaborative approach, Perot Systems integrates expertise from across the company to deliver custom solutions that enable
clients to accelerate growth, streamline operations, and create new levels of customer value. Headquartered in Piano, Texas,
Perot Systems has more than 400 clients and reported 2001 revenue of $1.2 billion. The company has more than 8,500
associates located in North America, Europe, and Asia. Additional information on Perot Systems is available at
http://www.perotsystems.com.

Perot Systems Government Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Perot Systems, provides engineering and information
technology expertise to the Defense, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement communities. PSGS has more than 600 professionals
working at company facilities in the Washington, D.C. area; Dover, New Hampshire; Norfolk, Virginia; Honolulu, Hawaii; and at
client sites throughout the United States.

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revenue and expense associated with its largest customer; growing start-up businesses; the highly competitive market in
which Perot Systems operates; the variability of quarterly operating results; changes in technology; and risks related to
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INS lab tracks down the unusual suspects Page 1 of 2

INS lab tracks down the unusual suspects

04/21/03
By Wilson P. Dizardlll,
GCN Staff
In the 1942 film "Casablanca," Peter Lorre as Ugarte hands stolen travel documents to Rick, played by
Humphrey Bogart, whispering, "Letters of transit signed by Gen. de Gaulle himself. Cannot be
rescinded, not even questioned."
The film is a classic, to be sure, but Pete Riley, senior intelligence officer with the Bureau of Citizenship
and Immigration Services' Forensic Document Laboratory, takes issue with this scene.
"There are no documents that can't be questioned," Riley said. In fact, it's his lab's job to do just that.
Officials at ports of entry examine tens of thousands of travel documents daily, said Jim Hesse, acting
director of the laboratory. Only 2 percent of individuals seeking entry to the country are pulled aside for
a more detailed inspection of their documents.
Inspectors scrutinize the documents to determine if they are stolen, forged or altered. Intelligence
officers and forensic examiners at the laboratory use high-tech equipment to compare suspect documents
with authentic ones. Some devices they use are:

• Photophones, which send images of documents from ports of entry to the laboratory
• Video spectral comparators, which forensic examiners use to inspect documents under infrared or
ultraviolet light
• Electrostatic detection apparatus, which lets examiners check marks on documents that are
invisible to the naked eye.

The lab handles about 5,000 cases every year, and examiners often must appear in court to testify in
criminal trials about the authenticity of documents. The lab also receives thousands of less elaborate
inquiries.
The immigration bureau plans to expand the laboratory's staff from 32 to 65 employees to increase its
capacity and reduce its backlog of cases, Hesse said.
Rich resources
The forensic examiners rely on the laboratory's vast collection of reference passports, visas, visa stamps,
embossed stamps, driver's licenses, birth certificates and other identity and travel documents to compare
with suspect documents. The laboratory maintains an inventory of more than 100,000 such documents
and stamps.
For the past three years, the lab has been building and expanding a database of its travel documents
called the Immigration Image Document Exemplars and Library (IDEAL). Riley designed the database
with help from engineers from Management Systems Designers Inc. of Vienna, Va.
"We have gone into every passport and every document, identified it, bar coded it and scanned it," Riley
said.
The system uses Kodak Imaging Professional software as the front end for an Oracle 7.0 database

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07/22/99 Committee on the Judiciary - Hesse Statement Page 1 of 8

U.S. Department of Justice

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Washington, DC
20536

TESTIMONY OF

JAMES HESSE

CHIEF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER

FORENSIC DOCUMENT LABORATORY

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

BEFORE THE

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS

CONCERNING

COUNTERFEITING AND MISUSE OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY CARD

AND STATE AND LOCAL IDENTITY DOCUMENTS

Thursday, July 22, 1999

10:00 a.m.

2141 Rayburn House Office Building

Good morning Mr. Chairman, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, and Members of the Subcommittee. Thank

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 United States General Accounting Office
Report to Congressional Requesters

March 2002
INS FORENSIC
DOCUMENT
LABORATORY
Several Factors
Impeded Timeliness of
Case Processing

GAP
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability

GAO-02-410
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INS and Airline Industry Relations

Report Number 1-2000-020
September 2000

TACTICAL INFORMATION
INS sharing of tactical information with the airlines is limited. At the local level, most INS airport
offices do not regularly share tactical information with the airlines. At the national level, there is no
formal program for the timely exchange of tactical information with the airlines. Additionally, INS
does not have an effective security policy for disseminating tactical information to airlines.

While JFK and Miami INS Offices Routinely Share Tactical Information with Airlines,
Other INS Airport Offices Do Not

To improve the process for sharing tactical information, officials at JFK and Miami International
airports established local INS carrier consultant programs.fi Under these programs, the same INS
carrier consultants who share tactical information with the airline employees are typically the ones
who have trained the airline employees. This dual carrier consultant role fosters familiarity, trust,
and cooperation between the INS local airport officials and the airline employees who screen those
passengers headed to the international airports in the United States.

During our visits to these two major air ports-of-entry, we noted numerous testimonial documents
thanking local INS officials for tactical information that enabled the airline to identify and, thereby,
deny boarding to improperly documented passengers. For example, on September 27, 1999, one
foreign airline notified INS officials at JFK that information provided to them prevented an
improperly documented passenger from boarding through a switch of passports between a French
national and a Sri Lankan. That same month, a U.S. airline, acting on information from JFK,
prevented the boarding of a national from the People's Republic of China who was attempting a
passport switch with a U.S. citizen. During FY 1999, a foreign airline reported that it had prevented
360 fraudulently documented passengers from coming to the United States as a result of JFK's
carrier consultant assistance. INS's program at Miami International Airport has reported similar
results.

With the exception of the two programs at JFK and Miami international airports, however, there are
no other formally established INS programs at U.S. international airports that regularly share
timely tactical information with the airlines. Airline officials expressed a desire to increase tactical
information sharing between INS and the airline industry. The timely sharing of tactical information
improves the airlines ability to screen out many improperly documented passengers from boarding.
Without having to process those passengers already screened out by the airlines, INS offices at
U.S. international airports can devote their scarce resources to other important law enforcement
work.

At the National Level, a Limited Amount of Tactical Information Is Shared with the
Airlines

At the national level, the INS Office of Intelligence does not have a formal program for sharing
information with the airlines. The Forensic Document Laboratory, however, produces fraudulent
document alerts that can provide helpful information to the airlines for identifying passengers that

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