SharpSwitch

SharpSwitch, founded and incorporated in 2012, specializes in providing comprehensive solutions to the Federal, State, Local, and Educational sectors. The company is known for delivering better answers, faster deployment timelines, and more efficient pricing to many federal agencies. SharpSwitch utilizes multi-modal techniques to collect and analyze biometrics, including fingerprint, iris, and facial recognition, adhering to DISA Enterprise and NIST specifications for designing identity management capabilities. The company primarily builds physical and logical access control systems for the Department of Defense and its subsidiary services, agencies, and components. SharpSwitch offers services in biometrics, identity management, and physical access control, with office locations in Monterey, CA, and satellite offices in San Jose, CA, Spokane, WA, and Washington, DC. The company was awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) IT Schedule 70 contract, enabling the sale of biometric products and other IT commodities and services to government customers. SharpSwitch has partnered with Fischer Identity to resell and implement Fischer’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution. The company is also involved in the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS), an identification authentication and force protection tool operational on military bases worldwide. DBIDS 5, the world’s largest distributed physical access control system, secures US military and government installations globally. SharpSwitch serves clients nationwide with a team of 44 full-time staff located throughout the United States.