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Sunnyvale/Noida, India – August 12, 2010 – HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Daon, a leading provider of biometric identity assurance software, to help aviation, transportation, government and public sector clients solve their identity program challenges through innovative biometric technology solutions.

In the post-9/11 world of stringent international travel requirements and passport standards, the need for a secure, automated system that incorporates real-time passenger identification and verification is imminent. Biometric recognition technology will be an essential component to making this identification system a reality.

Daon provides the enabling identity assurance technology wherever authentication is required, delivering identification and verification software for managing identities in border management environments, civil identity applications, traveler ID, employee credentialing and access control solutions.  Through this partnership, Daon will leverage HCL’s expertise in innovative biometric technology solutions engineering, deployment, training and R&D, to provide joint air travel clients with innovative solutions and service differentiators.

“HCL is committed to helping air travel companies transform their organizations through the adoption of biometrics, reducing operating costs and infrastructure changes. Also achieving this by enhancing the operating efficiency of screening, storage, transport and sorting systems required to ensure the safe and timely arrival of passenger luggage, as well as by reducing cost while heightening passenger safety through paperless air travel,” said Amit Gupta, vice president and global head of transportation vertical at HCL Technologies. “We pride ourselves in partnering with the world’s most advanced solution providers, and this partnership with Daon represents our continued commitment to delivering transformational, high value-add industry solutions to the air travel industry.”

“Daon is honored to join forces with HCL, a leading global engineering partner for aerospace and transportation companies,” said Daon CEO Tom Grissen. “We share a joint vision to deliver innovative solutions for enhanced security and travel convenience to the air transportation sector. HCL’s deep expertise, strategic insight and execution capabilities, coupled with Daon’s proven technologies, will provide comprehensive identity assurance solutions to transportation organizations worldwide.”