--Today, January 12, 2005, the GPO awarded contracts to four additional companies to provide computer chips for testing a new electronic U.S. passport.
--The four additional companies and the value of the contracts awarded today (1/12/05) for testing in the first phase of the project are:
ASK Contactless Technologies, Inc.
$103,220
Electronic Data Systems Corp.
$136,832
Oberthur Card Systems
$111,752
OTI America Inc.
$91,736
http://www.gpo.gov/news/2005/05news01.pdf
