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STANAG 4715
STANAG 4715 biometrics data interchange, watchlisting and reporting
Makers and integrators of biometric collection and identification systems, and defence programmes that exchange biometric data with NATO allies.
STANAG 4715 is the NATO agreement on exchanging biometric data between national systems for watchlisting and reporting. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from a public NATO publication that cites it.
- Edition
- 2
- Published
- 2022-01-31
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 4715 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on biometrics data interchange, watchlisting and reporting. Edition 2 was promulgated on 31 January 2022 under CNAD, AC/224 NAFAG, JCGISR, and it covers the publication AEDP-15. NATO has not released STANAG 4715 publicly, so this page describes it from AEDP-02, a public NATO publication that cites it.
Where it is cited
AEDP-02 describes STANAG 4715 in its section 4.1.14. It says "STANAG 4715 was developed to provide a baseline for NATO national biometric systems to meet interoperability requirements through automated and seamless exchange of biometric data across disparate systems." It defines the data in scope: "Biometric data is uniquely identifiable information about a person such as fingerprints, facial image or iris image." It notes that biometric collection devices and Automated Biometric Identification Systems (ABIS) deployed by member nations provide the means for sharing that information, and states the standard's role: "STANAG 4715 identifies a standardized data format for sharing biometric data for watchlisting and reporting."
On the supporting documents, AEDP-02 says "The STANAG 4715 supporting documents include the AEDP-15 to specify and define the biometric submission and response transactions." It adds that "The Integrated Data Dictionary (IDD) also accompanies STANAG 4715 and provides definitions, defines values and cardinality and is the source of all data elements available for use in a biometric transaction." According to AEDP-02, future revisions of the STANAG will add other biometric modalities such as speaker recognition and DNA matching.
AEDP-12 lists AEDP-15 Edition A, Version 1 as covered by STANAG 4715 Edition 1.
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