2025 SIA Identity and Biometrics Symposium

Speakers

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  Daniel Steadman Assistant Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  

  Daniel Steadman

  Assistant Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

  Daniel Steadman is an assistant chief (ASC) with the United States Border Patrol (USBP), currently serving at USBP Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he oversees the e3 Next Generation Program, the primary system used by agents nationwide to process individuals for removal proceedings. His federal service spans more than 14 years with USBP, during which he has held leadership roles at both the field and national levels.

  Prior to joining the Border Patrol in 2011, ASC Steadman served eight years in the United States Marine Corps, including a combat deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His law enforcement career includes field operations in high-threat border environments, oversight of technology integration programs such as the Android Team Awareness Kit and strategic planning for major national enforcement initiatives.

  In addition to his current role, Steadman has represented USBP on high-profile panels and at national conferences, providing subject matter expertise on border security policy, operational technology and intergovernmental collaboration.
  He holds a B.A. in psychology, and a master’s in international affairs and is pursuing continued professional development in national security, public administration and leadership.

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  Patrick Grother Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  

  Patrick Grother

  Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  Patrick Grother is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he is responsible for work on biometric standards and testing. He leads the IRis EXchange, Face Recognition Vendor Test and Face in Video Evaluation (FIVE) programs for iris and face recognition technologies that support biometrics in national scale identity management and co-chairs NIST’s International Face Performance Conference on measurement, metrics and certification. Grother also assists a number of US Government agencies in research, development and evaluation, and he has briefed senior government officials, the Army and Defense Science Boards. He serves as chair of the SC37 committee on biometrics and is editor of six International Organization for Standardization standards there. Grother also edits the biometrics specifications for the US Government’s Personal Identity Verification credentialing program, for which he received his second U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal. He also received the International Electrotechnical Commission 1906 award in 2009 and the American National Standards Institute Lohse IT Medal in 2013.

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  Jason Thompson Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, General Dynamics Information Technology
  

  Jason Thompson

  Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, General Dynamics Information Technology

  Jason Thompson is a systems engineering senior manager for biometrics, borders and transportation security at General Dynamics
  Information Technology (GDIT). In this role, he supports Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of Biometric Identity Management programs.

  Thompson has 30 years of law enforcement and public safety experience. Prior to his role at GDIT, Thompson was the supervisory assistant chief at U.S. Border Patrol and a biometrics coordinator for the CBP Office of International Affairs. During his time at the Border Patrol headquarters, he helped to modernize Border Patrol’s processing
  and biometrics systems, trained agents in using current biometric technologies, along with processing, targeting and intelligence
  systems, and developed the mobile biometric collection system e3 Mobile. He also oversaw the team responsible for developing Border
  Patrol’s Review and Approval Portal, which allowed for the first fully digital A-File. Thompson also successfully deployed and expanded the Biometric Data Sharing Partnership program to
  two new countries, Panama and Guatemala.

  Thompson has received multiple awards throughout his career, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Secretary Award for Innovation and the CBP Commissioner’s Award (Best Practices, Efficiency and Innovation).