# Office of Biometric Identity Management **Domain:** Austin Research / Institutions **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. The **Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM)** is the DHS office appearing in Barber’s grant record for *Biometrics Opportunity Architecture: Biometrics Improving Quality of Life*, dated 2017–2018. This adds a biometric-identity branch after the CV’s earlier IED, sensor/social-network, and [[wiki/Surety BioEvent App|BioEvent]] entries. The continuity is the investigator’s work and its recorded sponsorship. OBIM’s research relationship should remain distinct from [[wiki/IARPA Odin|IARPA Odin]], which has a separate sponsor and performer list. Both belong in the identity portion of the cluster, with their actual connections represented individually. ## Connected entries [[wiki/United States Department of Homeland Security|United States Department of Homeland Security]] · [[wiki/Suzanne Barber|Suzanne Barber]] · [[wiki/IARPA Odin|IARPA Odin]] · [[wiki/Biometric Presentation Attack Detection|Biometric Presentation Attack Detection]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [K. Suzanne Barber — UT curriculum vitae, p. 29](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]