UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.

For the transition period               to               .

Commission File Number

IMAGEWARE SYSTEMS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code):   (858) 673-8600

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act .  Yes  o      No  x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. Yes  o      No  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes  x      No  o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.   Yes  x      No  o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes  o    No  x

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based on the closing sales price of the issuer’s Common Stock on June 30, 2007, as reported on the American Stock Exchange was approximately $27,985,450.  Excluded from this computation were 557,118 shares of Common Stock held by all current executive officers and directors and 1,539,901 shares held by each person who is known by the registrant to own 5% or more of the outstanding Common Stock.  Share ownership information of certain persons known by the issuer to own greater than 5% of the outstanding Common Stock for purposes of the preceding calculation is based solely on information on Schedule 13G filed with the Commission and is as of June 30, 2006. Exclusion of shares held by any person or entity should not be construed to indicate that such person or entity possesses the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management or the policies of the Registrant.

The number of shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding as of April 4, 2008 was 18,075,639.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement for the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K to the extent stated herein.

IMAGEWARE SYSTEMS, INC.

2007 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Forward-Looking Statements

The statements contained in this Annual Report of Form 10-K that are not historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including statements regarding our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the extent and timing of future revenues and expenses and customer demand, statements regarding deployment of our products, and statements regarding reliance on third parties. All forward-looking statements included in this report are based on information available to us as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include but are not limited to: our need for additional capital, fluctuations in our operating results, continued new product introductions, market acceptance of our new product introductions, new product introductions by competitors, technological changes in the digital imaging industry, uncertainties regarding intellectual property rights and the other factors referred to herein including, but not limited to, those items discussed under “Risk Factors” below.

Trademarks

Capture the Image that Captures the Crook, C.R.I.M.E.S., FACE ID, ImageWare, Suspect ID, and Vehicle ID, EPIBuilder, and EPISuite are registered trademarks of the Company. Biometric Engine, WinBadge Aviation, and IWS Biometric Engine are trademarks of the Company.

All other trademarks, service marks and/or trade names appearing in this document are the property of their respective holders.

PART I

Item 1.  Business.

OVERVIEW

ImageWare Systems, Inc. is a leader in the emerging market for software-based identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential, law enforcement and enterprise authorization.  Our “flagship” product is the IWS Biometric Engine.  Scalable for small city business or worldwide deployment, our biometric engine is a multi-biometric platform that is hardware and algorithm independent, enabling the enrollment and management of unlimited population sizes.  Our identification products are used to manage and issue secure credentials, including national IDs, passports, driver licenses, smart cards and access control credentials. Our law enforcement products provide law enforcement with integrated mug shot, fingerprint LiveScan and investigative capabilities. We also provide comprehensive authentication security software, as well as real-time voice recognition, multilingual speech translation and voice analytics technologies.  Biometric technology is now an integral part of all markets we address, and all of our products are integrated into the Biometric Engine Platform.  Elements of the IWS Biometric Engine can be used as investigative tools for law enforcement utilizing multiple biometrics and forensic data elements, and to enhance security and authenticity of public and private sector credentials.

Our biometric technology is a core software component of an organization’s security infrastructure and includes a multi-biometric identity management solution for enrolling, managing, identifying and verifying the identities of people by the physical characteristics of the human body. We develop, sell and support various identity management capabilities within government (federal, state and local), law enforcement, commercial enterprises, and transportation and aviation markets for identification and verification purposes. Our IWS Biometric Engine is a biometric identity management platform for multi-biometric enrollment, management and authentication, managing population databases of virtually unlimited sizes. It is also offered as a Software Development Kit (SDK) based search engine, enabling developers and system integrators to implement a biometric solution or integrate biometric capabilities into existing applications without having to derive biometric functionality from pre-existing applications.  The IWS Biometric Engine combined with our secure credential platform, IWS EPI Builder, provides a comprehensive, integrated biometric and secure credential solution that can be leveraged for high-end applications such as passports, driver licenses, national IDs, and other secure documents. It can also be utilized within our law enforcement systems to incorporate any number of various multiple biometrics into one system.

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We recently added next generation voice recognition, multilingual speech translation and voice analytics capabilities to our suite of biometric identity management solutions, enabling users to facilitate and improve communication across major language groups globally. The ImageWare Mediator products are offered standalone or integrated with our Biometric Engine platform providing an advanced multilingual communications capability. Government, intelligence, defense, public safety and border control customers are able to realize language translation and voice recognition capabilities whereby an English-speaking user can understand and be understood in numerous languages including Spanish, German, French, Korean, Arabic and Polish, among others. ImageWare Mediator products support speech to speech translation, multilingual collaboration, conversational environments, which are represented for both voice and text and include biometric functionality for speaker identification and voice analytics.

Our law enforcement solutions enable agencies to quickly capture, archive, search, retrieve, and share digital images, fingerprints and criminal history records on a stand-alone, networked, wireless or Web-based platform. We develop, sell and support a suite of modular software products used by law enforcement and public safety agencies to create and manage criminal history records and to investigate crime. Our IWS Law Enforcement solution consists of six software modules: a Capture and Investigative module, which provides a criminal booking system and related database; a Facial Recognition module, which uses biometric facial recognition to identify suspects; a Suspect ID module, which facilitates the creation of full-color, photo-realistic suspect composites; a wireless module, which provides access to centrally stored records over the Internet in a connected or wireless fashion; a PDA add-on module, which enables access to centrally stored records while in the field on a handheld Pocket PC compatible device combined with central repository services which allows for inter-agency data sharing on a local, regional, and/or national level; and a LiveScan module, which incorporates LiveScan capabilities into IWS Law Enforcement providing integrated fingerprint and palm print biometric management for civil and law enforcement use.

Our Secure Credential ID solutions empower customers to create secure and smart digital identification documents with complete ID systems. We develop, sell and support software and design systems which utilize digital imaging in the production of photo identification cards and credentials and identification systems. Our products in this market consist of IWS EPI Suite, IWS EPI Builder (SDK), Identifier for Windows and ID Card Maker.  These products allow for the production of digital identification cards and related databases and records and can be used by, among others, schools, airports, hospitals, corporations or governments.  We have recently added the ability to incorporate multiple biometrics into the ID systems we offer with the addition of our new IWS Biometric Engine to our product line.

Our enterprise authentication software includes the IWS Desktop Security product which is a comprehensive authentication management infrastructure solution providing added layers of security to workstations, networks and systems through advanced encryption and authentication technologies. IWS Desktop Security is optimized to enhance network security and usability, and uses multi-factor authentication methods to protect access, verify identity and help secure the computing environment without sacrificing ease-of-use features such as quick login. Additionally, IWS Desktop Security provides an easy integration with various smart card-based credentials including the Common Access Card (CAC), Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential, and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) with an organization’s access control process. IWS Desktop Security provides the crucial end-point component of a Logical Access Control System (LACS), and when combined with a Physical Access Control System (PACS), organizations benefit from a complete door to desktop access control and security model.

CORPORATE HISTORY

ImageWare Systems, Inc., formerly known as ImageWare Software, Inc., was incorporated in the State of California on February 6, 1987.  From the inception until 1995, we designed and sold software products for the photo entertainment industry.  In late 1994, we sold our photo entertainment line of products, and utilized our core technologies to develop and sell products to law enforcement agencies.  In 1994 our company was sold to a new ownership and we embarked upon the design and creation of digital imaging based software products for law enforcement.  From 1995 to early 2000 our business consisted only of our law enforcement products.  We completed our initial public offering in April 2000.  At that time we recognized that our core imaging technology and industry expertise positioned us to enter other and larger markets, and we targeted the digital identification market for diversification.  It was a fragmented market which offered us the opportunity to establish market share through an acquisition program.  On August 22, 2000, we acquired Imaging Technology Corporation (“ITC”), a privately held developer of software and software systems for digital identification documents.  On September 29, 2000, we purchased Goddard Technology Corporation (“Goddard”), a privately held developer of software identification badging systems. On March 30, 2001, we purchased substantially all the assets of G & A Imaging Ltd. (“G & A”), a privately

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held developer of software and software systems for digital identification documents.  These three acquisitions, along with the internal development of digital ID solutions for some of our law enforcement customers, firmly placed us in the market for digital ID software.  In 2001, ID software and systems became our largest product segment.  On December 19, 2007, we added next generation voice recognition, multilingual speech translation and voice analytics capabilities to our suite of biometric identity management solutions, enabling users to facilitate and improve communication across major language groups globally through our acquisition of Sol Logic, Inc., a privately held developer of voice recognition technologies.

RECENT EVENTS

Significant developments around national and homeland security, specifically identity management, are direct results of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demonstrating the risks with insufficient credentialing and access control systems. Although the U.S. Government has taken strong initiatives to help combat terrorism and other identity related challenges, the industry is still in flux with inadequate equipment and appropriate funding causing a delay in deployments. The growing rate of identity theft is also pervasive and becoming of great concern. These developments have impacted business.

The law enforcement and secure credential markets, although seen as markets which would ultimately benefit from increased spending on security, were negatively impacted within the last five years by the tendency for the delay in purchasing decisions, awaiting guidance and funding from the government, and the use of available funding for payment of overtime expenditures incurred due to heightened security alerts. As we recognized these impacts, we continued to reduce cost and consolidate our businesses while expanding our products to meet market demands. We have restructured our company to be more cost effective and efficient by consolidating resources and moving various operations.

As a result of our strategy to address international markets for large identity management projects, we sold our Singapore subsidiary in 2005 and closed our German sales office in 2006. We now address this market through local and U.S. based strategic partners and systems integrators with local sales and service presence, and manage international channel partners for our boxed ID Software from our U.S. offices.

These international offices had historically emphasized the resale of third party merchandise (hardware and media) which generated lower gross margins than software and required significant fixed costs for sales, service and support. Although these measures have resulted in lower top line revenue in the short term, management believes that we will be able to replace the lost revenue with higher margin software sales while continuing to enjoy the lower fixed costs.

In furtherance of our strategy to more efficiently address both domestic and international markets for large-scale identity management projects, we completed the sale of our entire Professional Digital Photography (“PDI”) product line in the fourth quarter of 2006.  We sold this component because it had incurred significant operating losses and had lost significant market share.  The assets sold consisted primarily of a suite of software and related inventory including source, copyrights, trademarks, documentation and client base.

In the fourth quarter of 2007, we acquired the assets of Sol Logic, Inc., a leading provider of voice recognition and multilingual translation technology. This acquisition was in line with our strategic plan to expand our biometric product portfolio and enable us to enter new markets including military and defense.

INDUSTRY BACKGROUND

Biometrics and Secure Credential Markets

We believe the biometric identity management market will continue to grow as the role of biometrics becomes more widely adopted for enhancing security and complying with new government regulations such as HSPD-12. Our biometric and secure credentialing solutions are meeting the demands for true multi-modal biometric identity management systems, as well as providing scalability to support evolving functionality.

As a result of HSPD-12, government organizations are required to adopt new processes for verifying the identity of employees and contractors as well as controlling access to secure facilities and information systems. In response to the strict requirements set forth by the Federal government, ImageWare enhanced its IWS Biometric Engine and secure credentialing product suite by adding card management and card printing modules which enable the offering of end-to-end support for PIV-I and PIV-II business processes, technical requirements, as well as the ability to partner with leading physical and logical access control vendors for logistics and deployment considerations.

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Our technology also has applications in markets related to secure credentials, identification and access control (physical and logical) in the public and private sectors.  Organizations concerned with security can use our technology to create secure “smart” identification cards that can be instantly checked against a database of facial images or other biometrics to prevent unauthorized access to secure areas. We believe potential customers in these markets include, among others, large corporations, border crossings (land, air and sea), airports, hospitals, universities and government agencies.

Identification systems have historically been sold based upon the cost-savings digital systems offer over traditional photo-based systems. We believe that the ability to easily capture images and data in a digital database and to enable immediate and widespread access to that database for remote identification/verification will be a functionality that customers will require in the future and that such functionality will be one of the primary drivers for future growth within this market. We are able to provide field-proven identification products with high quality reference accounts across the board in terms of size and complexity of systems and user requirements. When combined with our proven biometric and Web capabilities, we believe we can provide a leading product offering into the biometrically-enabled secure credential market.

Law Enforcement and Public Safety Markets

The United States law enforcement and public safety markets are composed of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.  Our target customers include local police departments, sheriffs’ departments and offices, primary state law enforcement agencies, prisons, special police agencies, county constable offices, and federal agencies such as the FBI and the DEA.  We are also targeting agencies in foreign countries for our biometric and law enforcement solutions.

We believe the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent creation of the Department of Homeland Security has accelerated the adoption of digital identification systems. Law enforcement customers are demanding end-to-end solutions that incorporate robust features and functionalities such as biometric and secure credentialing capabilities, as well as instant access to centrally maintained records for real time verification of identity and privileges.

The U.S. federal government has promoted the development and use of nationwide criminal history record databases called the Interstate Identification Index (“III”) and the National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”), each consisting of on-line national and regional databases dedicated to serving criminal justice agencies. The Interstate Identification Index is maintained by the FBI and includes persons arrested for felonies or serious misdemeanors. The FBI has indicated that this index will accept photographs in the future. We anticipate that the inclusion of digital images in these databases will increase the value of digital booking systems and the demand for facial recognition applications. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the U.S. there has been significant discussion at the federal and state levels of government regarding the need for federal, state and local agencies to share information. We anticipate that the movement toward sharing of information will accelerate the adoption of systems such as ImageWare’s by law enforcement agencies at all levels.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Our identity management solutions are primarily focused around biometrics, secure credentials and multilingual translation providing complete, cross-functional and interoperable systems. Our biometric and secure credentialing products provide complete and interoperable solutions with features and functions required throughout the entire identity management life-cycle, enabling users the flexibility to make use of any desired options, such as identity proofing and enrollment, card issuance, maintenance and access control. Our solutions offer a significant benefit that one vendor’s solution is used throughout the various stages, from establishing an applicant’s verified identity, to issuance of smart card based credentials, to the usage and integration to physical and logical access control systems. Our multilingual translation products fulfills the need of translators, interpretation experts and linguists. These solutions address global collaboration through the use if next generation multilingual communications that provide integrated multilingual and biometric content services and integrated capabilities.

These solutions improve global communication, the integrity and authenticity of access control to facilities and information systems, as well as enhances security, increase efficiency, reduce identity fraud, and protect personal privacy.

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We categorize our identity management products and services into three basic markets: (1) Biometrics, (2) Secure Credential, and (3) Law Enforcement and Public Safety. Our biometric product line consists of the following:

Biometrics

IWS BIOMETRIC ENGINE

This is a biometric identity management platform for multi-biometric enrollment, management and authentication, managing population databases of unlimited sizes without regard to hardware or algorithm.  Searches can be 1:1 (verification), 1:N (identification), X:N (investigative) and N:N (database integrity). IWS Biometric Engine is technology and biometric agnostic, enabling the use of biometric devices and algorithms from any vendor, and the support of the following biometric types: finger, face, iris, hand geometry, palm, signature, DNA, voice, 3D face and retina. IWS Biometric Engine is a second-generation solution from ImageWare Systems that is based on field-proven ImageWare technology solutions that have been used to manage millions of biometric records since 1997 and is ideal for a variety of applications including: criminal booking, background checks (civil and criminal), watch list, visa/passport and border control (air, land and sea), physical and logical access control, and other highly-secure identity management environments.

IWS Biometric Engine is scalable, and biometric images and templates can be enrolled either live or offline.   Because it stores the enrolled images, a new algorithm can be quickly converted to support new or alternate algorithms and capture devices. The Biometric Engine is built to be hardware “agnostic”, and currently supports over 107 hardware capture devices and over 93 biometric algorithms.

In 2006, ImageWare launched an expanded suite of application solutions based on the award-winning IWS Biometric Engine. The IWS Biometric Engine has previously been available as a Software Development Kit (SDK), as well as a platform for custom configurations to meet specific customer requirements. The added suite of products provide government, law enforcement, border management and enterprise businesses, a wide variety of application-specific solutions that address specific government mandates and technology standards. It also provides the ability to integrate into existing legacy systems and expand based upon specific customer requirements. This enables users to integrate a complete solution or components as needed. The new application suite of products include complete packaged solutions for:

·                   HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification (PIV)

·                   Border Management

·                   ePassport & eVisa

·                   Applicant Identity Vetting

·                   Mobile Acquisition

·                   Disaster Management

·                   Physical Access Control

·                   Single-Sign-On and Logical Access Control

IWS PIV MANAGEMENT APPLICATION

ImageWare provides a set of Enterprise Server products within our complete PIV solution, and these software products supply server-based features and functions, while the use case for PIV requires client-based presentation of PIV data and workflow.  The IWS PIV Management Application supplies the web-based graphical user interface that presents the user or client interface to the various server functions.  Furthermore, since the server-based applications perform specific functions for specific phases of the PIV life-cycle, these server-based applications need to be bound together with additional workflow processes.  Again, the IWS PIV Management Application meets this need with software modules that interface and interconnect the server-based applications.

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IWS PIV MIDDLEWARE

The IWS PIV Middleware product, which is NIST certified and listed on the GSA approved product list, is a library of functions that connect a card reader & PIV card on the hardware side with a software application. The library implements the specified PIV Middleware API functions that support interoperability of PIV Cards.  This ImageWare software has been developed in conformance with the FIPS-201 specification, and the software has been certified by the NIST Personal Identification Verification Program (NPIVP) Validation Authority as being compliant.

IWS BACKGROUND SERVER

The IWS Background Server is a software application designed specifically for government and law enforcement organizations to support the first stage of biometric identity management functions such as identity proofing and vetting. IWS Background Check Server automatically processes the submission of an applicant’s demographic and biographic data to investigative bureaus for background checks prior to issuing a credential.

IWS DESKTOP SECURITY

IWS Desktop Security is a highly flexible, scalable and modular authentication management platform that is optimized to enhance network security and usability. This architecture provides an additional layer of security to workstations, networks and systems through advanced encryption and authentication technologies. Biometric technologies (face, fingerprint, iris, voice or signature), can be seamlessly coupled with TPM chips to further enhance corporate security. USB tokens, smart cards and RFID technologies can also be readily integrated. Additional features include:

·                                        Support for multiple authentication tools including Public Key Infrastructure (PK1) within a uniformed  platform and privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) technology to provide more advanced access control services and assure authentication and data integrity.

·                                        Integration with IWS Biometric Engine for searching and match capabilities (1:1, 1:N and X:N)

·                                        Integration with IWS EPI Builder for the production and management of secure Credentials

·                                        Support for both BioAPI and BAPI standards

·                                         Supports a single sign-on feature that securely manages Internet Explorer and Windows application ID and password information.

·                                        Supports file and folder encryption features.

·                                        Supports various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and And Windows Server 2003.

IWS BIOMETRIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT & ENHANCEMENT (IWS Biometric IQA&E)

The IWS Biometric IQA&E is a biometric image enhancement and assessment solution that assists government organizations with the ability to evaluate and enrich millions of biometric images automatically, saving time and costs associated with biometric enrollment while maintaining image and database integrity.

The IWS Biometric IQA&E improves the accuracy and effectiveness of biometric template enrollments. The software may be used standalone or in conjunction with the IWS Biometric Engine. IWS Biometric IQA&E provides automated image quality assessment with respect to relevant image quality standards from organizations such as International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), International Organization for Standards (ISO) and American Association of Motor Vehicle Association (AAMVA). IWS Biometric IQA&E also enables organizations to conduct multi-dimensional facial recognition which further enhances accuracy for numerous applications including driver licenses, passports and watch lists.

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IWS Biometric IQA&E automatically provides real-time biometric image quality analysis and feedback to improve the overall effectiveness of biometric images thus increasing the biometric verification performance, and maintaining database and image data integrity. IWS Biometric IQA&E provides a complete platform that includes an image enhancement library for biometric types including face, finger and iris.

IWS MEDIATOR

The IWS Mediator solution is a suite of products that provide next generation integrated voice recognition, multilingual speech translation, voice analysis and biometric capabilities for government, defense, public safety, border control, and corporate enterprises. These products enable users to facilitate and improve communication across major language groups globally, while accurately interpret ting to and from a foreign language including special terminology and nuances. In addition, the Mediator utilizes a core middleware component, Unity, to provide users with the ease to collaborate and identify throughout diverse and disparate mediums, as well as enable autonomous use through mobile technologies.  It supports speech-to-speech translation, multilingual collaboration, conversational environments (both voice and text) and include biometric functionality for speaker identification and voice analysis .  Because it is scalable, and hardware and software agnostic,  users have the freedom to select from best-of-breed applications to ensure efficient integration, and work with various environments to provide focused and mission-critical capabilities.

IWS COLLABID

The IWS CollabID product is self-contained, multilingual translation, collaborative and multimodal biometrics solution providing a means for users to communicate with subjects in their own language while allowing for subject verification and identification through the use of multimodal biometrics including face, iris, fingerprint, as well as support for the Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials. IWS CollabID performs in various environments and addresses mission-critical operations such as two-speech, speech-to-speech (rules and statistical), voice analysis, as well as multilingual chat, distributed speech for MeshNet and document exploitation.

Furthermore, CollabID combines ImageWare’s advanced technologies in the areas of integrated multilingual translation, voice analysis and biometric content services and capabilities. These integrated capabilities offer immediate increase in global communication while strengthening tactical missions. It also addresses the unique requirements for successful gisting, the art of conveying intent or meaning, which requires sophistication of language databases and the efficiency between the integrated technology and trainer. Additional features include:

·       Ability to provide critical content indicators, alerts and warnings for users and command distribution

·       Ability to upload all collected content and download updates and additional information to existing databases as required when connected

·       Support for multiple formats for stored and reported content

·       Assurance that all content is collected and stored locally

Secure Credential

Our Identification and Secure Credential Products consist of the following products:

IWS CARD MANAGEMENT

The IWS Card Management System (CMS) is a comprehensive solution to support and manage the issuance of smart cards complete with the following capabilities:

·               Biometric enrollment and identity proofing with Smart Card encoding of biometrics

·               Flexible models of central or distributed issuance of credentials

·               Customizable card life-cycle workflow managed by the CMS

Integration of the CMS data with other enterprise solutions, such as physical access control and logical access control (i.e. Single-Sign-On – SSO)

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IWS EPI SUITE

This is an ID software solution for producing, issuing, and managing secure credentials and personal identification cards. Users can efficiently manage large amounts of data, images and card designs, as well as track and issue multiple cards per person; automatically populate multiple cards, eliminating redundant data entry, IWS EPI Suite was designed to integrate with our customers’ existing security and computing infrastructure. We believe that this compatibility may be an appealing feature to corporations, government agencies, transportation departments, school boards, and other public institutions.

IWS EPI BUILDER

This is a software developer’s kit and a leading secure credential component of identity management and security solutions, providing all aspects of ID functionality from image and biometric capture to the enrollment, issuance and management of secure documents. It contains components which developers or systems integrators can use to support and produce secure credentials including national IDs, passports, International Civil Aviation Office (ICAO)-compliant travel documents, smart cards and driver licenses. IWS EPI Builder enables organizations to develop custom identification solutions or incorporate sophisticated identification capabilities into existing applications including the ability to capture images, biometric and demographic data; enable biometric identification and verification (1:1 and 1:X) as well as support numerous biometric hardware and software venders. It also enables users to add electronic identification functionality for other applications, including access control, tracking of time and attendance, point of sale transactions, human resource systems, school photography systems, asset management, inventory control, warehouse management, facilities management and card production systems.

IDENTIFIER FOR WINDOWS

This family of products combines the ability to capture photographic images digitally with the ability to create a database and to print identification cards. Identifier for Windows offers a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly application which can be used by schools, hospitals, corporations and governments.

IWS PRINTFARM

While it is the last stage of PIV Card Issuance, the PIV smart card printing process is by no means the least important stage.  Production printing of tens of thousands of PIV cards requires a significant investment and a well-engineered system.  The IWS EPI PrintFarm software offers a cost-effective yet high-performance method for high-volume card printing.

IWS PIV ENCODER

PIV smart cards must be programmed with specific mandatory data, digital signatures and programs in order to maintain the interoperability as well as the security features specified for the cards. The IWS PIV Encoder could be considered to be complex device driver that properly programs the PIV smart cards.  The Encoder interacts with the Card Management System for data payload elements. It interacts with the Certificate Authority to encrypt or sign the PIV smart card data with trusted certificates. Finally, it acts as the application-level device driver to make the specific PIV smart card encoding system properly program the smart card, regardless if the system is a standalone encoding system or one integrated into a card printer.

Law Enforcement and Public Safety

We believe our integrated suite of software products significantly reduces the inefficiencies and expands the capabilities of traditional booking and mugshot systems. Using our products, an agency can create a digital database of thousands of criminal history records, each including one or more full-color facial images, finger and palm prints, text information and images of other distinctive physical features such as scars, marks and tattoos. This database can be quickly searched using text queries or by using our biometric facial recognition or AFIS technology which can compare biometric characteristics of an unknown suspect with those in the database.

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Our investigative software products can also be used to create, edit and enhance digital images and to search databases of other agencies to which our customers have access.

Our IWS Law Enforcement solution consists of software modules, which may also be purchased individually. The IWS Law Enforcement Capture and Investigative module make up our booking system and database. Our add-on modules include Livescan, Facial Recognition, Suspect ID, a Wireless module, and a PDA add-on module.

IWS LAW ENFORCEMENT

IWS Law Enforcement is a digital booking, identification and investigative solution that enables users to digitally capture, search, store and retrieve images and demographic data including mug shots, scars, marks and tattoos (SMTs) and fingerprints. Law enforcement can submit fingerprint data directly to the State AFIS, FBI criminal repository, or other agencies as required. Additional features and functionality include real-time access to images and data, creation of digital composite sketches, photo lineups, and production of identification cards and credentials.  IWS Law Enforcement also uses off-the-shelf hardware and is designed to comply with open industry standards so that it can operate on an array of systems ranging from a stand-alone personal computer to a wide area network. To avoid duplication of entries, the system can be integrated easily with several other information storage and retrieval systems, such as a records management system or an automated fingerprint identification system.

CAPTURE

This software module allows users to capture and store facial images as well as images of distinguishing features such as scars, tattoos and other marks. Each entry contains both images and text information in an easy-to-view format made up of distinct fields. Current customers of this module range from agencies that capture a few thousand mugshots per year to those that capture hundreds of thousands of mugshots each year.

LIVESCAN

This software module is FBI certified which complies with the FBI Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Specifications (IQS) while utilizing the latest FBI certified Livescan device from most major vendors. Livescan allows users to capture single to ten prints and palm data, providing an integrated biometric management for civil and law enforcement use. By adding Livescan capabilities, law enforcement organizations further enhance the investigative process by providing additional identifiers to identify suspects involved in a crime.  In addition, officers no longer need to travel to multiple booking stations to capture fingerprints and mug shots.  All booking information including images will be located at a central designation and can be routed to the State AFIS or the FBI criminal history record repository.

INVESTIGATIVE

This software module allows users to search the database created with IWS Law Enforcement. Officers can conduct text searches in many fields, including file number, name, alias, distinctive features, and other information such as gang membership and criminal history. The Investigative module creates a catalogue of possible matches, allowing officers or witnesses to save time by looking only at mugshots that closely resemble the description of the suspect. This module can also be used to create a line-up of similar facial images from which a witness may identify the suspect.

FACIAL RECOGNITION

This software module uses biometric facial recognition and retrieval technology to help authorities identify possible suspects. Images taken from surveillance videos, digital sketches or photographs can be searched against a digital database of facial images to retrieve any desired number of faces with similar characteristics. This module can also be used at the time of booking to identify persons using multiple aliases. Using biometrics-based technology, the application can search through thousands of facial images in a matter of seconds, reducing the time it would otherwise take a witness to flip through a paper book of facial images that may or may not be similar to the description of the suspect. The Facial Recognition module then creates a selection of possible matches ranked in order of similarity to the suspect, and a percentage confidence level is attributed to each possible match. The application incorporates search engine technology which we license from various facial recognition algorithm providers.

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SUSPECT ID

This software module allows officers and witnesses to quickly create full-color, photo-realistic suspect composites. The digital composites are constructed from libraries of facial features based upon actual color photographs of such features. Suspect ID allows officers with minimal computer training and artistic talent to create a suspect composite by pointing and clicking with a mouse. This module can be installed on a laptop computer and taken into the field, allowing officers to conduct interviews and create composites before witnesses’ memories fade. For rapid identification, officers can distribute completed composites within minutes via fax or e-mail.

WIRELESS

The Wireless module enables authorized personnel to access and search a county’s booking records stored in IWS Law Enforcement through a standard Web browser from within the county’s intranet. This module allows remote access to the IWS Law Enforcement database without requiring the user to be physically connected to the customer’s network. This application requires only that the user have access to the Internet and authorization to access the county’s intranet.

PDA

The PDA module is a powerful investigative tool that allows officers to access IWS Law Enforcement booking photos and related data in the field on a handheld Pocket PC compatible device.

Maintenance and Customer Support

As part of our installation of a system, we offer to train our customers’ employees as to the effective use of our products. We offer training both on-site and at our facilities. We offer on-site hardware support to our customers, generally within 24 hours of the customer request. Customers can contract with us for technical support that enables them to use a toll-free number to speak with our technical support center for software support and general assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As many of our government customers operate around the clock and perceive our systems as critical to their day-to-day operations, a very high percentage contract for technical support. Customer support services typically provide us with annual revenue of 12% to 18% of the initial sales price of the hardware and software purchased by our customers.  Maintenance revenues typically account for approximately 21% to 25% of our total revenues.

Software Customization and Fulfillment

We directly employ computer programmers and also retain independent programmers to develop our software and perform quality control. We provide customers with software that we specifically customize to operate on their existing computer system. We work directly with purchasers of our system to ensure that the system they purchase will meet their unique needs. We configure and test the system either at our facilities or on-site and conduct any customized programming necessary to connect the system with any legacy systems already in place.  We can also provide customers with a complete computer hardware system with our software already installed and configured. In either case, the customer is provided with a complete turnkey solution which can be used immediately. When we provide our customers with a complete solution including hardware, we use off-the-shelf computers, cameras and other components purchased from other companies such as IBM or Hewlett Packard. Systems are assembled and configured either at our facilities or at the customer’s location.

OUR STRATEGY

Our strategy is to provide open-architected identity management solutions including multi-biometric, multilingual translation, secure credential and law enforcement technologies that are stand alone, integrated and/or bundled with key partners including channel relationships and large systems integrators such as Honeywell, Boeing, GE Security, CSC, Unisys, HP, IBM, Oracle, Motorola, among others. Key elements of our strategy for growth include the following:

Fully Exploit the Biometrics, Access Control and Identification Markets

The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security coupled with the movement by governments around the world to authenticate the identity of their citizens, employees and contractors has accelerated the adoption of biometric

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identification systems that can provide secure credentials and instant access to centrally maintained records for real-time verification of identity and access (physical and logical) privileges. Using our products, an organization can create secure credentials that correspond to records including images and biographic data in a digital database. A border guard or customs agent can stop an individual to quickly and accurately verify his identity against a database of authorized persons, and either allow or deny access as required. Our technology is also standards based and applied to facilitate activities such as federal identification mandates while complying with personal identification verification standards (HSPD-12), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) driver licenses, voter registration, immigration control and welfare fraud identification.

With the identity management market growing at a rapid pace, biometric identifiers are becoming recognized and accepted as integral components to the identification process in the public and private sectors.  As biometric technologies (facial recognition, fingerprint, iris, etc) are adopted, identification systems must be updated to enable their use in the field.  We have built our solutions to enable the incorporation of one or multiple biometrics, which can be associated with a record and stored both in a database and on a card for later retrieval and verification without regard to the specific hardware employed.  We believe the increasing demand for biometric technology will drive demand for our solutions which enable their use by end users.  Our identity management products are built to accommodate the use of biometrics and meet the demanding requirements across the entire identity life cycle.

Expand into the Multilingual Translation Market

The need for multilingual translation, interpretation, global collaboration, identification and conversation-based systems are more urgent that ever before. The world community, including international organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union, are spread around the globe, requiring not only a large number of linguists in general, but also a large number of linguists for each given language. Similarily, law enforcement agencies, while in support of homeland security operations and information analysis, lack the necessary manpower to support continuous language translation and monitoring of broadcast information sources which may provide insight, and other potentially critical data to support their tasks.

Given the unique environment in which these professionals work, accurate interpretation to and from a foreign language, including special terminology and nuances are critically important. Our Mediator suite of multilingual translation products provide users with the ease to collaborate and identify throughout diverse and disparate mediums, as well as enable autonomous use through mobile technologies. We are utlizing our expertise in biometric and identity management, and integrating these capabilities, providing a means for users to communicate with subjects in their own language while allowing for subject verification and identification through multimodal biometrics such as voice, face, iris, fingerprint, as well as support for the Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential.

Fully Expand Law Enforcement and Public Safety Markets

We intend to use our successful installations with customers such as the Arizona Department of Public Safety, New South Wales Police, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as reference accounts and to aggressively market IWS Law Enforcement as a superior technological solution. Our recent addition of the Livescan module and support for local AFIS to our IWS Law Enforcement will enhance its functionality and value to the law enforcement customer as well as increase the potential revenue the Company can generate from a system sale.  We primarily sell direct to the law enforcement community. Our sales strategy is to increase sales to new and existing customers including renewing supporting maintenance agreements. We have also established relationships with large systems integrators such as Motorola to OEM our law enforcement solution utilizing their worldwide sales force. We will focus our sales efforts in the near term to establish IWS Law Enforcement as the integrated mug shot and Livescan system adopted in as many countries, states, large counties and municipalities as possible. Once we have a system installed in a region, we intend to then sell additional systems or retrieval seats to other agencies within the primary customer’s region and in neighboring regions. In addition, we plan to market our integrated investigative modules to the customer, including the Facial Recognition and Wireless modules, Suspect ID, WitnessView, Wireless module, and PDA module. As customer databases of digital mug shots grow, we expect that the perceived value of our investigative modules, and corresponding revenues from sales of those modules, will also grow.

Acquire Businesses That Enhance Our Strategic Position

We may acquire additional businesses that will complement our growth strategy and enhance our competitive position in our current markets and other markets that utilize our core biometric identity management and multiligual translation technologies.

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Expand into Related Applications within the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Markets

Our products can provide solutions to law enforcement and public safety agencies beyond our core application of police booking systems and related investigative products with minimal adaptation. The technology behind our IWS Law Enforcement product line can be used to create databases of missing children and to compare the facial image of a lost child to the images in the database. Our system can be used to help correctional facilities track and control inmates as well as facilitate inmate release. Gun sellers could use our products to access available criminal databases and help prevent the sale of guns to ineligible persons. Our technology can be used to monitor persons on parole or probation without requiring them to travel to their parole or probation officer. We anticipate that a parolee or probationer will be able to have his photograph taken in a specially-designed kiosk which uses biometrics-based technology to identify the person and inform his parole or probation officer of his location.

SALES AND MARKETING

We market and sell our products through our direct sales force and through indirect distribution channels, including systems integrators. We have sales and account representatives based domestically in Virginia, Maryland, Texas, Arizona,  and California. Geographically, as of March 1, 2008, our sales and marketing force consists of 14 persons in the United States.

We sell through a direct sales organization which is supported by the marketing organization.  Our sales professionals are supported by our technical experts who are available by telephone and conduct on-site customer presentations.

The typical sales cycle for IWS Biometric Engine and IWS Law Enforcement includes a pre-sale process to define the potential customer’s needs and budget, an on-site demonstration and conversations between the potential customer and existing customers. Government agencies are typically required to purchase large systems by including a list of requirements in a Request For Proposal, known as an “RFP,” and by allowing several companies to openly bid for the project by responding to the RFP. If our response is selected, we enter into negotiations for the contract and, if successful, ultimately receive a purchase order from the customer. This process can take anywhere from a few months to over a year.

Our Biometric and ID products are also sold to large integrators, direct via our sales force and to end users through distributors. Depending on the customer’s requirements, there may be instances that require an RFP. The sales cycle can vary from a few weeks to a year.

In addition to our direct sales force, we have developed relationships with a number of systems integrators who contract with government agencies for the installation and integration of large computer and communication systems. By acting as a subcontractor to these systems integrators, we are able to avoid the time consuming and often-expensive task of submitting proposals to government agencies, and we also gain access to large clients.

We also work with companies that offer complementary products, where value is created through product integration. Through teaming arrangements we are able to enhance our products and to expand our customer base through the relationships and contracts of our strategic partners.

We promote our products through trade journal advertisements, direct mail and attendance at industry trade shows, including those sponsored by the Biometric Consortium, International Association for Biometrics, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, International Association for Identification, American Society of Industrial Security and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. We also target other media through public relations efforts, including non-industry publications, daily newspapers, local and national news programs, and television programs related to law enforcement. Articles regarding our products have appeared in Business Week, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and a number of other publications.

We plan to continue to market and sell our products internationally. Some of the challenges and risks associated with international sales include the difficulty in protecting our intellectual property rights, difficulty in enforcing agreements through foreign legal systems and volatility and unpredictability in the political and economic conditions of foreign countries. We believe we can work to successfully overcome these challenges.

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CUSTOMERS

We have a wide variety of domestic and international customers. Most of our IWS Law Enforcement customers are government agencies at the federal, state and local levels in the United States. Our products are also being used in Australia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. The customer base for our digital identification systems includes domestic and foreign government agencies, universities, airports, and private sector companies, many of which are Fortune 500 or Fortune 1000 companies. In 2007, Unisys Corporation accounted for approximately 18% of our revenues.  In 2006, Raytheon Company accounted for approximately 21% of our revenues.  In 2005 there was no single customer who accounted for more than 10% of our revenues.

COMPETITION

The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Markets

Due to the fragmented nature of the law enforcement and public safety market and the modular nature of our product suite, we face different degrees of competition with respect to each IWS Law Enforcement module. We believe the principal basis on which we compete with respect to all of our products are:

·               the unique ability to integrate our modular products into a complete biometric, Livescan, imaging and investigative system;

·               our reputation as a reliable systems supplier;

·               the usability and functionality of our products; and

·               the responsiveness, availability and reliability of our customer support.

Our law enforcement product line faces competition from other companies such as DataWorks Plus and Cogent Systems, Inc.  Internationally, there are often a number of local companies offering solutions in most countries. Many of our competitors’ products in this niche offer basic image capture and storage, but lack the functionality of integrated investigative products, including facial recognition and image editing and enhancement.

Identification Markets

Due to the breadth of our software offering in the secure ID market space, we face differing degrees of competition in certain market segments. The strength of our competitive position is based upon:

·               our strong brand reputation with a customer base which includes small and medium-sized businesses, Fortune 500 corporations and large government agencies;

·               the ease of integrating our technology into other complex applications; and

·               the leveraged strength that comes from offering customers software tools, packaged solutions and Web-based service applications that support a wide range of hardware peripherals.

Our software faces competition from Datacard Corporation, a privately held manufacturer of hardware, software and consumables for the ID market. There are also a considerable number of smaller software competitors such as Number Five Software Ltd., Loronix Information Systems, Inc. and Fox Technology Pty Ltd. who compete in differing geographies, primarily in the packaged product segment.

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Biometric Market

The market to provide biometric systems to the identity management market is evolving and we face competition from a number of sources. We believe that the strength of our competitive position is based on:

·                                           our unique ability to provide a system which enables the enrollment, management and authentication of multiple biometrics managing population databases of unlimited sizes;

·                                           searches can be 1:1 (verification), 1:N (identification) and X:N (investigative); and N:N (database integrity)

·                                           the system is technology and biometric agnostic, enabling the use of biometric devices and algorithms from any vendor, and the support of the following biometric types: finger, face, iris, hand geometry, palm, DNA, signature, voice, and 3D face and retina;

Our multi-biometric product faces competition from L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc., Ireland-based Daon, and French-based Sagem neither of which have offerings with the scope and flexibility of our IWS Biometric Engine.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We rely on trademark, patent, trade secret and copyright laws and confidentiality and license agreements to protect our intellectual property. We have several unregistered and federally registered trademarks including the trademark ImageWare, as well as trademarks for which there are pending trademark registrations with the United States, Canadian and other International Patent & Trademark Offices.  We hold several issued patents and have several other patent applications pending for elements of our products.  We license and depend on intellectual property from third parties for our biometric products and modules which utilizes third party biometric encoding and matching technologies.

We regard our software as proprietary and retain title to and ownership of the software we develop.  We attempt to protect our rights in the software primarily through trade secrets.  We have not published the source code of most of our software products and require employees and other third-parties who have access to the source code, other trade secret information, to sign confidentiality agreements acknowledging our ownership and the nature of these materials as our trade secrets.

Despite these precautions, it may be possible for unauthorized parties to copy or reverse-engineer portions of our products.  While our competitive position could be threatened by disclosure or reverse engineering of this proprietary information, we believe that copyright and trademark protection are less important than other factors such as the knowledge, ability, and experience of our personnel, name recognition and ongoing product development and support.

Our software products are licensed to end users under a perpetual, nontransferable, nonexclusive license that stipulates which modules can be used and how many concurrent users may use them.  These forms of licenses are typically not signed by the licensee and may be more difficult to enforce than signed agreements in some jurisdictions.

Although our products have never been the subject of an infringement claim, we cannot assure that third parties will not assert infringement claims against us in the future or that any such assertion will not require us to enter into royalty arrangements or result in costly litigation.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Our research and development team is made up of 26 programmers, engineers and other employees. We also contract with outside programmers for specific projects as needed. We spent approximately $3.7 million, $3.7 million and $2.9 million on research and development in 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively. We continually work to increase the speed, accuracy, and functionality of our existing products. We anticipate that our research and development efforts will continue to focus on new technology and products for the identity management markets.

EMPLOYEES

As of March 1, 2008, we had a total of 72 full-time employees. Our employees are not covered by any collective bargaining agreement, and we have never experienced a work stoppage. We believe that our relations with our employees are good.

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Item 1A.  Risk Factors

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. before investing in our common stock, you should consider carefully the specific risks detailed in this “Risk Factors” section and any applicable prospectus supplement, together with all of the other information contained in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement. If any of these risks occur, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be harmed, the price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.

RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS

Risks Related to Our Business

We have incurred net losses in our six most recent fiscal years and AMEX has issued us a letter that it intends to remove our common stock from listing and registration on the exchange .

The AMEX Company Guide (the “Company Guide”) provides that AMEX will normally consider suspending dealings in, or removing from the list, securities of a company which sustains net losses in its five most recent fiscal years and has shareholders’ equity of less than $6,000,000, unless the company has total market capitalization of at least $50,000,000, or total assets and revenue of $50,000,000. We have sustained net losses during our six most recent fiscal years, and as of December 31, 2007, our shareholders’ equity was approximately $3,527,000. In addition, we do not meet the alternative minimum market capitalization or total asset and revenue requirements.

On December 14, 2007, we received a letter from AMEX indicating that we do not comply with AMEX’s continued listing standards due to our inability to maintain compliance with Sections 1003(a)(ii), 1003(a)(iii) and 1003(a)(iv) of the Company Guide and that AMEX intends to remove our common stock from listing and registration on AMEX by filing a delisting application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).  The letter from AMEX states that we were not in compliance with (i) Section 1003(a)(ii) of the Company Guide because our shareholders’ equity was less than $4,000,000 and we sustained losses from continuing operations and/or net losses in three out of our four most recent fiscal years, and (ii) Section 1003(a)(iii) of the Company Guide because our shareholders’ equity was less than $6,000,000 and we sustained losses from continuing operations and/or net losses in our five most recent fiscal years.  We had also been notified by AMEX that we were not in compliance with Section 1003(a)(iv) of the Company Guide in that we had sustained losses which are so substantial in relation to our overall operations or our existing financial resources, or our financial condition had become so impaired that it appeared questionable, in the opinion of AMEX, as to whether we would be able to continue operations and/or meet our obligations as they matured.

We filed an appeal of AMEX’s determination and requested an oral hearing before an AMEX Listing Qualifications Panel (a “Qualifications Panel”).  On March 10, 2008, we received a letter from AMEX granting our request.  Our hearing with a Qualifications Panel is scheduled for April 16, 2008.  If the Qualifications Panel does not grant the relief sought, our common stock will be delisted from AMEX following which it is expected that our common stock would be quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board.  As a consequence of any such delisting, the public price of our common stock could be adversely affected and a stockholder would likely find it more difficult to dispose of, or to obtain accurate quotations as to the prices of, our common stock.

We have a history of significant recurring losses totaling approximately $75.9 million, and these losses may continue in the future .

As of December 31, 2007, we had an accumulated deficit of $75.9 million, and these losses may continue in the future. We will need to raise capital to fund our continuing operations, and financing may not be available to us on favorable terms or at all. In the event financing is not available in the time frame required, we will be forced to sell certain of our assets or license our technologies to others. We expect to continue to incur significant sales and marketing, research and development, and general and administrative expenses. As a result, we will need to generate significant revenues to achieve profitability and we may never achieve profitability.

Our operating results have fluctuated in the past and are likely to fluctuate significantly in the future. We may experience fluctuations in our quarterly results of operations as a result of:

·                varying demand for and market acceptance of our technology and products;

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·                changes in our product or customer mix;

·                the gain or loss of one or more key customers or their key customers, or significant changes in the financial condition of one or more of our key customers or their key customers;

·                our ability to introduce, certify and deliver new products and technologies on a timely basis;

·                the announcement or introduction of products and technologies by our competitors;

·                competitive pressures on selling prices;

·                costs associated with acquisitions and the integration of acquired companies, products and technologies;

·                our ability to successfully integrate acquired companies, products and technologies, including the assets acquired from Sol Logic;

·                   our accounting and legal expenses; and

·                   general economic conditions.

These factors, some of which are not within our control, may cause the price of our stock to fluctuate substantially. To respond to these and other factors, we may need to make business decisions that could result in failure to meet financial expectations. If our quarterly operating results fail to meet or exceed the expectations of securities analysts or investors, our stock price could drop suddenly and significantly. Most of our expenses, such as employee compensation, inventory and debt repayment obligations, are relatively fixed in the short term. Moreover, our expense levels are based, in part, on our expectations regarding future revenue levels. As a result, if our revenue for a particular period were below our expectations, we would not be able to proportionately reduce our operating expenses for that period. Any revenue shortfall would have a disproportionately negative effect on our operating results for the period.

We received a “going concern” opinion from our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2006  and 2007, which may negatively impact our business.

We received a report from Stonefield Josephson, Inc., our independent registered public accounting firm (“Stonefield Josephson”), regarding our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and 2007, which included an explanatory paragraph stating that the consolidated financial statements were prepared assuming we will continue as a going concern. The report also stated that our substantial net losses and monetary liabilities have raised substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.  The “going concern” opinion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, may fail to dispel any continuing doubts about our ability to continue as a going concern and could adversely affect our ability to enter into collaborative relationships with business partners, to raise additional capital and to sell our products, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We currently have limited cash resources and we will require additional funding to finance our working capital requirements for at least the next twelve months .

We currently have limited cash resources and we will require financing to fund our anticipated working capital requirements for at least the next twelve months. If we are not able to generate positive cash flows from operations in the near future, we will be required to seek additional funding through public or private equity or debt financing. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are required to sell equity to raise additional funds, our existing stockholders may incur substantial dilution and any shares so issued may have rights, preferences and privileges superior to the rights, preferences and privileges of our outstanding common stock. If we seek debt financing, the terms of the financing may require us to agree to restrictive covenants or impose other obligations that limit our ability to grow our business, acquire necessary assets or take other actions that we consider necessary or desirable.  Also, we may be required to obtain funds through arrangements with third parties that require us to relinquish rights to certain of our technologies or products that we would seek to develop or commercialize ourselves. In addition, our ability to raise additional capital may be dependent upon our common stock being listed on AMEX. We have not satisfied the criteria for continued listing on AMEX in the past and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to satisfy the criteria for continued listing on AMEX in the future.

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Our current ineligibility to use the Registration Statement on Form S-3 may affect our ability to finance our working capital requirements for the next twelve months .

As a result of the fact that our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2007, was filed after the deadline for its filing, we became ineligible through December 2008 to register shares of our common stock on a Form S-3 Registration Statement. Certain investors, for whom the ability to resell their shares relatively soon after they acquire them is important, may only be willing to participate in private financings by us if we can register their shares using a Form S-3 Registration Statement.  Therefore, our ineligibility to use Form S-3 could limit our ability to raise additional capital for at least the next 12 months or such longer period that we are ineligible to use the Form S-3 Registration Statement.

We depend upon a small number of large system sales ranging from $500,000 to in excess of $2,000,000, and we may fail to achieve one or more large system sales in the future .

Historically, we have derived a substantial portion of our revenues from a small number of sales of large, relatively expensive systems, typically ranging in price from $500,000 to $2,000,000. If we fail to receive orders for these large systems in a given sales cycle on a consistent basis, our business could be significantly harmed. Further, our quarterly results are difficult to predict because we cannot predict in which quarter, if any, large system sales will occur in a given year. As a result, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our results of operations are not a good indication of our future performance. In some future quarters, our operating results may be below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, in which case the market price of our common stock may decrease significantly.

Our lengthy sales cycle may cause us to expend significant resources for as long as one year in anticipation of a sale to certain customers, yet we still may fail to complete the sale .

When considering the purchase of a large computerized identity management system, potential customers of ours may take as long as one year to evaluate different systems and obtain approval for the purchase. Under these circumstances, if we fail to complete a sale, we will have expended significant resources and received no revenue in return. Generally, customers consider a wide range of issues before committing to purchase our products, including product benefits, ability to operate with their current systems, product reliability and their own budgetary constraints. While potential customers are evaluating our products, we may incur substantial selling costs and expend significant management resources in an effort to accomplish potential sales that may never occur.

A significant number of our customers and potential customers are government agencies that are subject to unique political and budgetary constraints and have special contracting requirements which may affect our ability to obtain new and retain current government customers .

A significant number of our customers are government agencies. These agencies often do not set their own budgets and therefore have little control over the amount of money they can spend from quarter-to-quarter or year-to-year. In addition, these agencies experience political pressure that may dictate the manner in which they spend money. Due to political and budgetary processes and other scheduling delays that may frequently occur relating to the contract or bidding process, some government agency orders may be canceled or substantially delayed, and the receipt of revenues or payments from these agencies may be substantially delayed. In addition, future sales to government agencies will depend on our ability to meet government contracting requirements, certain of which may be onerous or impossible to meet, resulting in our inability to obtain a particular contract. Common requirements in government contracts include bonding requirements, provisions permitting the purchasing agency to modify or terminate at will the contract without penalty, and provisions permitting the agency to perform investigations or audits of our business practices, any of which may limit our ability to enter into new contracts or maintain our current contracts.

We may fail to create new applications for our products and enter new markets, which may have an adverse effect on our operations, financial condition and prospects .

We believe our future success depends in part on our ability to develop and market our technology for applications other than booking systems for the law enforcement market. If we fail in these goals, our business strategy and ability to generate revenues and cash flow would be significantly impaired. We intend to expend significant resources to develop new technology, but the successful development of new technology cannot be predicted and we cannot guarantee we will succeed in these goals.

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We occasionally rely on systems integrators to manage our large projects, and if these companies do not perform adequately, we may lose business .

We occasionally act as a subcontractor to systems integrators who manage large projects that incorporate our systems, particularly in foreign countries. We cannot control these companies, and they may decide not to promote our products or may price their services in such a way as to make it unprofitable for us to continue our relationship with them. Further, they may fail to perform under agreements with their customers, in which case we might lose sales to these customers. If we lose our relationships with these companies, our business, financial condition and results of operations may suffer.

If the patents we own or license, or our other intellectual property rights, do not adequately protect our products and technologies, we may lose market share to our competitors and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected .

Our success depends significantly on our ability to protect our rights to the technologies used in our products. We rely on patent protection, trade secrets, as well as a combination of copyright and trademark laws and nondisclosure, confidentiality and other contractual arrangements to protect our technology. However, these legal means afford only limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep any competitive advantage. In addition, we cannot be assured that any of our current and future pending patent applications will result in the issuance of a patent to us. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) may deny or require significant narrowing of claims in our pending patent applications, and patents issued as a result of the pending patent applications, if any, may not provide us with significant commercial protection or be issued in a form that is advantageous to us. We could also incur substantial costs in proceedings before the PTO. These proceedings could result in adverse decisions as to the claims included in our patents.

Our issued and licensed patents and those that may be issued or licensed in the future may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, which could limit our ability to stop competitors from marketing related products. Additionally, upon expiration of our issued or licensed patents, we may lose some of our rights to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing products using the technology based on the expired patents. We also must rely on contractual rights with the third parties that license technology to us to protect our rights in the technology licensed to us. Although we have taken steps to protect our intellectual property and technology, there is no assurance that competitors will not be able to design around our patents. We also rely on unpatented proprietary technology. We cannot assure you that we can meaningfully protect all our rights in our unpatented proprietary technology or that others will not independently develop substantially equivalent proprietary products or processes or otherwise gain access to our unpatented proprietary technology. We seek to protect our know-how and other unpatented proprietary technology with confidentiality agreements and intellectual property assignment agreements with our employees. However, such agreements may not provide meaningful protection for our proprietary information in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure or other breaches of the agreements or in the event that our competitors discover or independently develop similar or identical designs or other proprietary information. In addition, we rely on the use of registered and common law trademarks with respect to the brand names of some of our products. Our common law trademarks provide less protection than our registered trademarks. Loss of rights in our trademarks could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Furthermore, the laws of foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. If we fail to apply for intellectual property protection or if we cannot adequately protect our intellectual property rights in these foreign countries, our competitors may be able to compete more effectively against us, which could adversely affect our competitive position, as well as our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If third parties claim that we infringe their intellectual property rights, we may incur liabilities and costs and may have to redesign or discontinue selling certain products .

Whether a product infringes a patent involves complex legal and factual issues, the determination of which is often uncertain. We face the risk of claims that we have infringed on third parties’ intellectual property rights. Searching for existing intellectual property rights may not reveal important intellectual property and our competitors may also have filed for patent protection, which is not as yet a matter of public knowledge, or claimed trademark rights that have not been revealed through our availability searches. Our efforts to identify and avoid infringing on third parties’ intellectual property rights may not always be successful. Any claims of patent or other intellectual property infringement, even those without merit, could:

·                increase the cost of our products;

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·                be expensive and time consuming to defend;

·                result in us being required to pay significant damages to third parties;

·                force us to cease making or selling products that incorporate the challenged intellectual property;

·                require us to redesign, reengineer or rebrand our products;

·                require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements in order to obtain the right to use a third party’s intellectual property, the terms of which may not be acceptable to us;

·                require us to indemnify third parties pursuant to contracts in which we have agreed to provide indemnification to such parties for intellectual property infringement claims;

·                divert the attention of our management; and

·                result in our customers or potential customers deferring or limiting their purchase or use of the affected products until the litigation is resolved.

In addition, new patents obtained by our competitors could threaten a product’s continued life in the market even after it has already been introduced.

The failure to successfully integrate any business or asset acquisitions into our existing operations, or if we discover previously undisclosed liabilities, could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations .

We completed the acquisition of certain assets of Sol Logic in December 2007, and we plan to continue to review potential acquisition candidates. Our business and our strategy include building our business through acquisitions. However, acceptable acquisition candidates may not be available in the future or may not be available on terms and conditions acceptable to us.

Successful acquisitions depend upon our ability to identify, negotiate, complete and integrate suitable acquisitions and to obtain any necessary financing. Even if we complete acquisitions, we may experience:

·                difficulties in integrating any acquired companies, personnel and products into our existing business;

·                delays in realizing the benefits of the acquired company or products;

·                diversion of our management’s time and attention from other business concerns;

·                limited or no direct prior experience in new markets or countries we may enter;

·                higher costs of integration than we anticipated; and

·                difficulties in retaining key employees of the acquired business who are necessary to manage these acquisitions.

In addition, an acquisition could materially impair our operating results by causing us to incur debt or requiring us to amortize acquisition expenses and acquired assets. We may also discover deficiencies in internal controls, data adequacy and integrity, product quality, regulatory compliance and product liabilities that we did not uncover prior to our acquisition of such businesses, which could result in us becoming subject to penalties or other liabilities. Any difficulties in the integration of acquired businesses or unexpected penalties or liabilities in connection with such businesses could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We operate in foreign countries and are exposed to risks associated with foreign political, economic and legal environments and with foreign currency exchange rates .

With our acquisition of G&A Imaging Ltd. in 2001, we have significant foreign operations. As a result, we are exposed to risks, including among others, risks associated with foreign political, economic and legal environments and with foreign

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currency exchange rates. Our results may be adversely affected by, among other things, changes in government policies with respect to laws and regulations, anti-inflation measures, currency conversions, remittance abroad and rates and methods of taxation.

We depend on key personnel, the loss of any of whom could materially adversely affect future operations .

Our success will depend to a significant extent upon the efforts and abilities of our executive officers and other key personnel. The loss of the services of one or more of these key employees and any negative market or industry perception arising from the loss of such services could have a material adverse effect on us and the trading price of our common stock.  Our business will also be dependent upon our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. Acquiring and keeping these personnel could prove more difficult or cost substantially more than estimated and we cannot be certain that we will be able to retain such personnel or attract a high caliber of personnel in the future.

Compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 may result in substantial costs to us and a diversion of management attention and resources, and failure to maintain adequate internal controls over financial reporting could result in our business being harmed and our stock price declining .

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires us to document and test the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with an established control framework and to report on our management’s conclusion as to the effectiveness of these internal controls over financial reporting beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2007.  This section also requires that our independent registered public accounting firm provide an attestation report on our internal control over financial reporting beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008. Our management completed its evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2007 and concluded that our internal controls over financial reporting were effective as of that date.

The standards that must be met for management to continue to assess the internal control over financial reporting are complex and will require significant documentation, testing and possible remediation to meet the detailed standards.  In addition, the attestation process that must be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm is new and complex. We may encounter problems or delays in completing the activities necessary to continue to make assessments of our internal control over financial reporting, completing the implementation of any requested improvements, or receiving an unqualified attestation of our assessment by our independent registered public accountants.  Ensuring that we have adequate internal financial and accounting controls and procedures in place is a costly and time-consuming effort that needs to be evaluated frequently, so compliance with these new rules could require us to incur substantial costs and may require a significant amount of time and attention of management, which could seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. If we are unable to continue to our internal control over financial reporting as effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to provide an unqualified attestation report on our assessment, investors may lose confidence in us and our stock price may be negatively impacted.

We face competition from companies with greater financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources, and, if we are unable to compete effectively with these competitors, our market share may decline and our business could be harmed .

We face competition from other established companies. A number of our competitors have longer operating histories, larger customer bases, significantly greater financial, technological, sales, marketing and other resources than we do.  As a result, our competitors may be able to respond more quickly than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards or client requirements, more quickly develop new products or devote greater resources to the promotion and sale of their products and services than we can.  Likewise, their greater capabilities in these areas may enable them to better withstand periodic downturns in the identity management solutions industry and compete more effectively on the basis of price and production.  In addition, new companies may enter the markets in which we compete, further increasing competition in the identity management solutions industry.

We believe that our ability to compete successfully depends on a number of factors, including the type and quality of our products and the strength of our brand names, as well as many factors beyond our control. We may not be able to compete successfully against current or future competitors, and increased competition may result in price reductions, reduced profit margins, loss of market share and an inability to generate cash flows that are sufficient to maintain or expand the development and marketing of new products, any of which would adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition.

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Risks Related to Our Securities

The holders of our preferred stock have certain rights and privileges that are senior to our common stock, and we may issue additional shares of preferred stock without stockholder approval that could have a material adverse effect on the market value of the common stock .

Our Board of Directors (“Board”) has the authority to issue a total of up to 4,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions, including voting rights, of the preferred stock, which typically are senior to the rights of the common stockholders, without any further vote or action by the common stockholders. The rights of our common stockholders will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of the preferred stock that have been issued, or might be issued in the future. Preferred stock also could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock. This could delay, defer, or prevent a change in control. Furthermore, holders of preferred stock may have other rights, including economic rights, senior to the common stock. As a result, their existence and issuance could have a material adverse effect on the market value of the common stock. We have in the past issued and may from time to time in the future issue, preferred stock for financing or other purposes with rights, preferences, or privileges senior to the common stock. As of December 31, 2007, we had three series of preferred stock outstanding, Series B preferred stock, Series C 8% convertible preferred stock and Series D 8% convertible preferred stock.

The provisions of our Series B Preferred Stock prohibit the payment of dividends on the common stock unless the dividends on those preferred shares are first paid. In addition, upon a liquidation, dissolution or sale of our business, the holders of the Series B Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive, in preference to any distribution to the holders of common stock, initial distributions of $2.50 per share, plus all accrued but unpaid dividends.  Pursuant to the terms of our Series B Preferred Stock we are obligated to pay cumulative cash dividends on shares of Series B Preferred Stock from legally available funds at the annual rate of $0.2125 per share, payable in two semi-annual installments of $0.10625 each, which cumulative dividends must be paid prior to payment of any dividend on our common stock. As of December 31, 2007, we had cumulative undeclared dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock of approximately $9,000.

The Series C Preferred Stock has a liquidation preference equal to its stated value, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon and any other fees or liquidated damages owing thereon. The Series C Preferred Stock accrues cumulative dividends at the rate of 8.0% of the stated value per share per annum.  At the option of the Company, the dividend payment may be made in the form of cash, after the payment of cash dividends to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock, or common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock.  Each share of Series C Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the option of the holder into a number of shares of common stock equal to the stated value (initially $1,000 per share, subject to adjustment), plus any accrued and unpaid dividends, divided by the conversion price (initially $1.50 per share, subject to adjustment). Subject to certain limitations, the conversion price per share shall be adjusted in the event of certain subsequent stock dividends, splits, reclassifications, dilutive issuances, rights offerings, and reclassifications.  Certain activities may not be undertaken by the Company without the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock. As of December 31, 2007, we had cumulative undeclared dividends on the Series C Preferred Stock of approximately $234,000.

The Series D Preferred Stock has a liquidation preference equal to its stated value, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon and any other fees or liquidated damages owing thereon. The Series D Preferred Stock accrues cumulative dividends at the rate of 8.0% of the stated value per share per annum.  At the option of the Company, the dividend payment may be made in the form of cash, after the payment of cash dividends to the holders of Series B and Series C Preferred Stock, or common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock.  Each share of Series D Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the option of the holder into a number of shares of common stock equal to the stated value (initially $1,000 per share, subject to adjustment), plus any accrued and unpaid dividends, divided by the conversion price (initially $1.90 per share, subject to adjustment). Subject to certain limitations, the conversion price per share shall be adjusted in the event of certain subsequent stock dividends, splits, reclassifications, dilutive issuances, rights offerings, and reclassifications.  Certain activities may not be undertaken by the Company without the affirmative vote of a majority of the holders of the outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock. As of December 31, 2007, we had cumulative undeclared dividends on the Series D Preferred Stock of approximately $98,000.

Our stock price has been volatile, and your investment in our common stock could suffer a decline in value .

There has been significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of equity securities, which is unrelated to the financial performance of the companies issuing the securities. These broad market fluctuations may negatively affect the

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market price of our common stock. You may not be able to resell your shares at or above the price you pay for those shares due to fluctuations in the market price of our common stock caused by changes in our operating performance or prospects and other factors.

Some specific factors that may have a significant effect on our common stock market price include:

·                actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results or future prospects;

·                our announcements or our competitors’ announcements of new products;

·                the public’s reaction to our press releases, our other public announcements and our filings with the SEC;

·                strategic actions by us or our competitors, such as acquisitions or restructurings;

·                new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;

·                changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles;

·                changes in our growth rates or our competitors’ growth rates;

·                developments regarding our patents or proprietary rights or those of our competitors;

·                our inability to raise additional capital as needed;

·                substantial sales of common stock underlying warrants and preferred stock;

·                concern as to the efficacy of our products;

·                changes in financial markets or general economic conditions;

·                sales of common stock by us or members of our management team; and

·                changes in stock market analyst recommendations or earnings estimates regarding our common stock, other comparable companies or our industry generally.

Our future sales of our common stock could adversely affect its price and our future capital-raising activities could involve the issuance of equity securities, which would dilute your investment and could result in a decline in the trading price of our common stock .

We may sell securities in the public or private equity markets if and when conditions are favorable, even if we do not have an immediate need for additional capital at that time. Sales of substantial amounts of our common stock, or the perception that such sales could occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market price of our common stock and our ability to raise capital. We may issue additional common stock in future financing transactions or as incentive compensation for our executive management and other key personnel, consultants and advisors. Issuing any equity securities would be dilutive to the equity interests represented by our then-outstanding shares of common stock. The market price for our common stock could decrease as the market takes into account the dilutive effect of any of these issuances. Furthermore, we may enter into financing transactions at prices that represent a substantial discount to the market price of our common stock. A negative reaction by investors and securities analysts to any discounted sale of our equity securities could result in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.

If registration rights that we have previously granted are exercised, then the price of our common stock may be adversely affected .

We have agreed to register with the SEC certain shares of our common stock which we issued in unregistered offerings.  In the event these securities are registered with the SEC, they may be freely sold in the open market provided the registration statement relating to such shares becomes effective and subject to trading restrictions to which our affiliates holding the shares may be subject from time to time. We expect that we also will

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be required to register any securities sold in future private financings. Additionally, the number of shares of our common stock underlying issued and outstanding warrants and preferred stock registered under prior registration statements, many of which are now available for resale under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, is substantial and sales of such underlying stock could cause significant dilution.  The sale of a significant amount of shares in the open market, or the perception that these sales may occur, could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline or become highly volatile.

Our corporate documents and Delaware law contain provisions that could discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company .

Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a merger or acquisition involving us that our stockholders may consider favorable. For example, our certificate of incorporation authorizes preferred stock, which carries special rights, including voting and dividend rights. With these rights, preferred stockholders could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us.

We are also subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. Under these provisions, if anyone becomes an “interested stockholder,” we may not enter into a “business combination” with that person for three years without special approval, which could discourage a third party from making a takeover offer and could delay or prevent a change of control. For purposes of Section 203, “interested stockholder” means, generally, someone owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock or an affiliate of ours that owned 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock during the past three years, subject to certain exceptions as described in Section 203.

We do not expect to pay cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future .

We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid on the common stock for the foreseeable future. The payment of any cash dividend by us will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our earnings, capital, regulatory requirements and financial condition. Furthermore, the terms of our Series B Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock directly limit our ability to pay cash dividends on our common stock.

Securities analysts may not continue to cover our common stock or may issue negative reports, and this may have a negative impact on our common stock’s market price .

There is no guarantee that securities analysts will continue to cover our common stock. If securities analysts do not cover our common stock, the lack of research coverage may adversely affect our common stock’s market price. The trading market for our common stock relies in part on the research and reports that industry or financial analysts publish about our business or us. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrades our stock, our stock price may decline rapidly. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of our common stock, we could lose visibility in the market, which in turn could cause our stock price to decline. In addition, rules mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and a global settlement reached between the SEC, other regulatory analysts and a number of investment banks in April 2003, may lead to a number of fundamental changes in how analysts are reviewed and compensated. In particular, many investment banking firms will now be required to contract with independent financial analysts for their stock research. It may be difficult for companies with smaller market capitalizations, such as our company, to attract independent financial analysts that will cover our common stock, which could have a negative effect on our market price.

The large number of holders and lack of concentration of ownership of our common stock may make it difficult for us to reach a quorum or obtain an affirmative vote of our stockholders at future stockholder meetings .

Our stock is held in a large number of individual accounts. As a result, it may be difficult for us to reach a quorum or obtain an affirmative vote of a majority of our stockholders where either of those thresholds are measured based on the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding. Difficulty in obtaining a stockholder vote could impact our ability to complete any financing or strategic transaction requiring stockholder approval or effect basic corporate governance changes, such as an increase in the authorized number of shares of our preferred stock and our common stock.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

Not applicable.

Item 2. Properties.

Our corporate headquarters are located in San Diego, California where we occupy approximately 16,000 square feet of office space and approximately 1,000 square feet of warehouse space. Our lease for this facility continues through September 2008 at a cost of approximately $20,500 per month.  We occupy 10,000 square feet in Gatineau, Province of Quebec. These premises are leased until May 2009, at a cost of approximately $16,800 per month. We occupy 3,470 square feet of office space in Portland, Oregon at a cost of approximately $7,300 per month.  Our lease for this facility continues through October 2009.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

We are periodically engaged in litigation in the ordinary course of business and do not believe that any of such litigation is material to our ongoing operations.

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Not applicable.

PART II

ITEM 5. Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters.

Market Information.

Our Common Stock trades under the symbol “IW” on the American Stock Exchange.

The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices per share for our Common Stock as reported by the American Stock Exchange for each quarter in 2007 and 2006:

There is no public trading market for our preferred stock.

Holders.

As of March 25, 2008, there were approximately 1,600 holders of record of our Common Stock.

Dividends.

We have never declared or paid dividends on our Common Stock and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our shares of Common Stock in the foreseeable future. We are obligated to pay cumulative cash dividends on shares of Series B Preferred Stock from legally available funds at the annual rate of $0.2125 per share, payable in two semi-annual installments of $0.10625 each, which cumulative dividends must be paid prior to payment of any dividend on our Common

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Stock.  The holders of our Series C Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative dividends, at the option of the Company, payable (i) in common stock upon conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock, or (ii) in cash after the payment of cash dividends to the holders of our Series B Preferred Stock at the rate of 8% per annum (as a percentage of stated value per share).  The holders of our Series D Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative dividends, at the option of the Company, payable (i) in common stock upon conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock, or (ii) in cash after the payment of cash dividends to the holders of our Series B Preferred Stock at the rate of 8% per annum (as a percentage of stated value per share).

As of December 31, 2007, the Company had cumulative undeclared dividends of approximately $9,000 relating to our Series B Preferred Stock, approximately $234,000 relating to our Series C Preferred Stock, and approximately 98,000 relating to our Series D Preferred Stock.

Repurchases.

We did not repurchase any shares of our common stock during fiscal 2007.

Item 6. Selected Consolidated Financial Data

The following selected financial data should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-K. The selected consolidated statement of operations data presented below for each of the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, and the consolidated balance sheet data at December 31, 2007 and 2006 are derived from our Consolidated Financial Statements that have been included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. The selected consolidated statement of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 and consolidated balance sheet data at December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003 are derived from audited consolidated financial statements not included in this Form 10-K. The historical results of operations are not necessarily indicative of future results.

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:

BALANCE SHEET DATA:

(1) Results of operations as presented have been restated to exclude the results of operations of our Digital Photography and Digital Imaging Asia Pacific components due to these components being classified as discontinued operations due to their sale in November 2006 and March 2005, respectively.

Item 7.   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report.  This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.  Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors including those set forth under “Risk Factors” in Item 1A above.  Due to such fluctuations, historical results and percentage relationships are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for any future period.

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OVERVIEW

ImageWare Systems, Inc. is a leader in the emerging market for software-based identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential and law enforcement technologies.  Our “flagship” product is the IWS Biometric Engine™.  Scalable for small city business or worldwide deployment, our biometric engine is a multi-biometric platform that is hardware and algorithm independent, enabling the enrollment and management of unlimited population sizes.  Our identification products are used to manage and issue secure credentials including national IDs, passports, driver licenses, smart cards and access control credentials. Our law enforcement products provide law enforcement with integrated mug shot, fingerprint Livescan and investigative capabilities.  The biometric technology is now an integral part of all markets we address, and all of our products are integrated into the Biometric Engine Platform.  Elements of the biometric engine can be used as investigative tools to law enforcement potentially utilizing multiple biometrics and forensic data elements, and to enhance security and authenticity of public and private sector credentials.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

The discussion and analysis of our consolidated financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principals generally accepted in the United States of America, or U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires us to utilize accounting policies and make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingencies as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during a fiscal period. The SEC considers an accounting policy to be critical if it is important to a company’s financial condition and results of operations, and if it requires significant judgment and estimates on the part of management in its application. Although we believe that our judgments and estimates are appropriate and correct, actual results may differ from those estimates.

The following are our critical accounting policies because we believe they are both important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and require critical management judgments and estimates about matters that are uncertain. If actual results or events differ materially from those contemplated by us in making these estimates, our reported financial condition and results of operations for future periods could be materially affected.  For a detailed discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies, see Note 1 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, beginning on page F-7.

Revenue Recognition

Our revenue recognition policy is significant because our revenue is a key component of our consolidated results of operations. We recognize revenue from the following major revenue sources:

·                   Long-term fixed-price contracts involving significant customization

·                   Fixed-price contracts involving minimal customization

·                   Software licensing

·                   Sales of computer hardware and identification media

·                   Postcontract customer support (PCS)

The Company’s revenue recognition policies are consistent with U. S. GAAP including Statements of Position 97-2 “Software Revenue Recognition” and 98-9 “Modification of SOP 97-2, Software Revenue Recognition With Respect to Certain Transactions”, Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin 104 , Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 00-21 “Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables”, and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 03-05 “Applicability of AICPA Statement of Position 97-2 to Non-Software Deliverables in an Arrangement Containing More-Than-Incidental Software”. Accordingly, the Company recognizes revenue when all of the following criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collectibility is reasonably assured.

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We recognize revenue and profit as work progresses on long-term, fixed-price contracts involving significant amount of hardware and software customization using the percentage of completion method based on costs incurred to date compared to total estimated costs at completion. Revenue from contracts for which we cannot reliably estimate total costs or there are not significant amounts of customization are recognized upon completion. Determining when a contract should be accounted for using the percentage of completion method involves judgment. Critical items that are considered in this process are the degree of customization and related labor hours necessary to complete the required work as well as ongoing estimates of the future labor hours needed to complete the contract. We also generate non-recurring revenue from the licensing of our software. Software license revenue is recognized upon the execution of a license agreement, upon deliverance, fees are fixed and determinable, collectibility is probable and when all other significant obligations have been fulfilled. We also generate revenue from the sale of computer hardware and identification media. Revenue for these items is recognized upon delivery of these products to the customer. Our revenue from periodic maintenance agreements is generally recognized ratably over the respective maintenance periods provided no significant obligations remain and collectibility of the related receivable is probable.

For a detailed discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies, see Note 1 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, beginning on page F-7.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We provide an allowance for our accounts receivable for estimated losses that may result from our customers’ inability to pay.  We determine the amount of allowance by analyzing historical losses, customer concentrations, customer creditworthiness, current economic trends, the age of the accounts receivable balances, and changes in our customer payment terms when evaluating the adequacy of the allowance for doubtful accounts. Our accounts receivables balance was $425,000, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $0 for the year ended December 31, 2007.

Valuation of Goodwill, Other Intangible and Long-Lived Assets

We assess impairment of goodwill and identifiable intangible assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. Factors we consider important which could trigger an impairment review include the following:

·                                           Significant underperformance relative to historical or expected future operating results;

·                                           Significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy of our overall business;

·                                           Significant negative industry or economic trends;

When we determine that the carrying value of goodwill and other intangible assets may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more of the above indicators of impairment, we measure any impairment based upon fair value methodologies. Goodwill and other net intangible assets amounted to approximately $6,889,000 for the year ended December 31, 2007.  During the twelve months ended December 31, 2007, we completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Sol Logic, Inc.  We recorded goodwill from this acquisition of approximately $1,036,000 after the allocation of purchase price as determined by an unaffiliated, professional third-party valuation firm employing fair value methodologies.

In 2002, Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets” became effective, and as a result we ceased to amortize goodwill. In lieu of amortization, we performed an initial impairment review of our goodwill in June, 2002 and will perform an annual impairment review thereafter in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year.  Completion of our initial impairment test indicated there was no goodwill impairment.  We also performed our annual impairment review as of December 31, 2005, based upon our 2006 operating plan  This annual impairment review indicated there was goodwill impairment in our Digital Photography segment as of December 31, 2005, and accordingly, we recorded an impairment loss in the 2005 Consolidated Statement of Operations.  Both of these tests were conducted by determining and comparing the fair value of our reporting units, as defined in SFAS 142, to the reporting unit’s carrying value as of that date.

With the sale of our Digital Photography component in 2006, we reassessed the composition of our operating segments and determined that we no longer operate in separate, distinct market segments but rather operate in one market segment, such segment being identity management.  The Company’s determination was based on fundamental changes in the Company’s business structure due to the consolidation of operations, restructuring of the Company’s operations and

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management team, and the integration of what where previously distinct, mutually exclusive technologies.  This has resulted in changes in the manner by which the Company’s chief decision maker assesses performance and makes decisions concerning resource allocation.  As a result of our operation in one market segment, such segment being identity management, our 2006 and 2007 goodwill impairment review consisted of the comparison of the fair value of our identity management segment as determined by the quoted market prices of our common stock to the carrying amount of the segment. As the fair value exceeded the carrying value by a substantial margin, we determined that our goodwill was not impaired.

There are many management assumptions and estimates underlying the determination of an impairment loss, and estimates using different, but reasonable, assumptions could produce significantly different results. Significant assumptions include estimates of future levels of revenues and operating expenses. Therefore, the timing and recognition of impairment losses by us in the future, if any, may be highly dependent upon our estimates and assumptions.  There can be no assurance that goodwill impairment will not occur in the future.

We account for long-lived assets in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.”  This statement requires that long-lived assets and certain identifiable intangible assets be reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable.  Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future net undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by the asset.  If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets.  Fair value is determined based on discounted cash flows or appraised values, depending upon the nature of the asset.  Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount of fair value less costs to sell.  During the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 we completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Sol Logic, Inc.  Pursuant to this acquisition, we recorded approximately $2,311,000 in identifiable intangible assets.  The assets acquired were a covenant not to compete valued at approximately $200,000, customer base valued at approximately $93,000 and developed technology valued at approximately $2,018,000.  The allocation of the purchase price was based on fair value methodologies employed by an independent valuation firm.

We recorded no impairment losses for long-lived or intangible assets during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 and 2006. In 2005, we recorded an impairment charge of approximately $253,000 related to our intangible asset for certain trademark and tradenames carried in our Identification segment.  This loss reflects the amount by which the carrying value of this asset exceeded its estimated fair value determined by the assets’ future discounted cash flows.  The impairment loss is recorded as a component of “Operating expenses” in the Statement of Operations for 2005.  There are many management assumptions and estimates underlying the determination of an impairment loss, and estimates using different, but reasonable, assumptions could produce significantly different results. Significant assumptions include estimates of future levels of revenues and operating expenses. Therefore, the timing and recognition of impairment losses by us in the future, if any, may be highly dependent upon our estimates and assumptions.  There can be no assurance that intangible asset impairment will not occur in the future.

Stock-Based Compensation

Upon adoption of SFAS 123R on January 1, 2006, we began estimating the value of employee stock options on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes model. Prior to the adoption of SFAS 123R, the value of each employee stock option was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes model for the purpose of the pro forma financial disclosure in accordance with SFAS 123. The determination of fair value of stock-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model is affected by our stock price as well as assumptions regarding a number of highly complex and subjective variables. These variables include, but are not limited to the expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards and the actual and projected employee stock option exercise behaviors. The expected term of options granted is derived from historical data on employee exercises and post-vesting employment termination behavior. We calculated our expected volatility assumption required in the Black-Scholes model based on the historical volatility of our stock. As of January 1, 2006 we have adopted the modified prospective transition method and its effect is included in our consolidated financial statements for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006.  We will update these assumptions on at least an annual basis and on an interim basis if significant changes to the assumptions are warranted.

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Year Ended December 31, 2007 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2006 and Year Ended December 31, 2006 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2005

The following management’s discussion and analysis or plan of operation is based primarily upon our Identity Management segment.  Results as presented do not contain the results of our Digital Photography component nor our wholly-owned subsidiary, Digital Imaging Asia Pacific, due to these components being classified as discontinued operations due to the sale of Digital Photography in November 2006 and Digital Imaging Asia Pacific in the first fiscal quarter of 2005.

Revenues

Product Revenues

Identity management software and royalty revenues decreased 16% or approximately $922,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006.  Sales of our Biometric Engine and EPI identity management products decreased 11% or approximately $557,000 in 2007 from 2006.  This decrease is reflective of lower sales of these products into project oriented solutions.  Also contributing to this decrease were lower royalties generated from our IWS Desktop Security product.   Sales of software and royalties related to our law enforcement products decreased 42% or $365,000 in 2007 from 2006 due primarily to decreased sales of our Crime Capture System to state and local law enforcement agencies.

The increase in our Identity management software and royalties of 46% in 2006 from 2005 is reflective of increased  sales of our Biometric Engine and EPI identity management products into project oriented solutions. Also contributing to this increase were royalties generated from our IWS Desktop Security product.  The increase in project-oriented revenues was offset by a decrease in sales of boxed product through our distribution channel.

Hardware and consumable product sales decreased approximately 74% or $998,000 during twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006.  Sales of hardware decreased approximately 60% or $279,000 from 2006 levels and reflect both a decrease in project oriented work and in the hardware composition of orders received and completed by the Company.  Sales of consumables decreased approximately 82% or $719,000 and are reflective of lower project sales and recurring orders from our Law Enforcement customers.  Hardware and consumable sales for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 contain approximately $203,000 related to our German sales office which was closed in order to reduce operating costs.

Hardware and consumable product sales decreased approximately 36% or $761,000 during twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 and reflects the repositioning of our international sales office in Germany in order to lower fixed costs and pursue significant Identification projects utilizing the Company’s software technologies as our primary differentiator.  This office had historically emphasized the resale of third-party merchandise (hardware and consumables) which generated lower gross margins than software (as a percentage of revenue) and required significant fixed costs for sales, service and support.  In furtherance of this strategy, in December 2005, we decided to reorganize our German sales office by closing our existing facility in order to reduce operating expenses. The effect on hardware and consumables revenues from the closure of this office was a reduction of such revenues of approximately $732,000 in 2006 as compared to 2005.

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Services revenues are comprised primarily of software integration services, system installation services and customer training.  Such revenues decreased 9% or approximately $33,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006 due primarily to a decrease in project work.

Such revenues decreased during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period of 2005 due primarily to the composition of our customer’s orders and a decrease in our installation of hardware products.

We expect service revenues to increase in 2008 through our implementation of large-scale high-end installations.

We generated revenues of $500,000 from sublicensing our Image Editing System patent within the computer video, web conferencing and cellular phone fields of use during the twelve months ended December 31, 2005.  There were no such revenues earned in the comparable periods of 2007 or 2006.

We believe that the period-to-period fluctuations of identity management software revenue in project-oriented solutions is largely due to the timing of government procurement with respect to the various programs we are pursuing.  Based on management’s current visibility into the timing of potential government procurements, we believe that we will see a significant increase in government procurement and implementations with respect to identity management initiatives during  2008 and continuing into 2009.

We feel that we are well positioned for participation in one or more large-scale domestic or international projects which will enable our company to achieve significant product revenue growth.  In the past eighteen months we have continuously retooled our identity management suite of products to meet changing government specifications and to enable customization for large project applications.  Additionally, we reoriented our sales organization to direct our resources and efforts toward establishing partnerships with large systems integrators as we believe these integrators will be the ultimate choice for awards of large-scale secure identification solutions.

Our backlog of product orders as of December 31, 2007, was approximately $867,000.  At December 31, 2007, we also had maintenance and support backlog of approximately $883,000 under existing maintenance agreements.  Product revenue is typically recognized within a three to six month period depending upon the required degree of customization, if any.  Historically, we have experienced a very minimal risk of order cancellation and do not anticipate order cancellations in excess of 5%.  Our revenue from maintenance agreements is generally recognized ratably over the respective maintenance periods provided no significant obligations remain and collectibility of the related receivable is probable.

Maintenance Revenues

Maintenance revenues increased 10% for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006 and reflects the expansion of our installed base resulting from the completion of significant project-oriented work during the year ended December 31, 2007 in conjunction with our retention of existing maintenance customers.  Likewise, our increase in maintenance revenues for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 reflects the expansion of our installed base during 2006 combined with our retention of existing maintenance customers.

We anticipate continued growth of our installed base through the retention of existing customers combined with the completion of project-oriented work; however we cannot predict the timing of this anticipated growth.

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Cost of Product Revenues

The dollar decrease in our costs of software and royalty product revenue of approximately 18% or $218,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006 is reflective of lower software and royalty revenues being generated from project-oriented work in the 2007 year.  Identity management software and royalty revenues decreased 16% during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006.

The dollar increase in our costs of software and royalty product revenue of approximately 32% or $294,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period of 2005 is reflective of increased software and royalty revenues being generated from project-oriented work which includes costs for third-party software licenses and contract programming fees for software customization.  Such costs decreased as a percentage of software and royalty product revenues by approximately 2% during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period of 2005 due to higher software and royalty product revenues in the 2006 year.

Costs of product revenues of our hardware and consumables revenues decreased approximately 70% or $688,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006 due to lower sales of hardware and consumables.  Sales of hardware decreased approximately $279,000 and sales of consumables decreased approximately $719,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006.  These revenue decreases resulted in lower cost of sales of approximately $157,000 related to hardware and lower cost of sales of approximately $531,000 related consumables.

Costs of product revenues of our hardware and consumables revenues decreased approximately 50% or $982,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period of 2005 due to lower sales of hardware and consumables.  This decrease in hardware and consumables product revenues is reflective of our decision in late 2005 to close our German sales office.  This office had historically emphasized the resale of third-party merchandise (hardware and consumables) which generated lower gross margins than software (as a percentage of revenue) and required significant fixed costs for sales, service and support  The 2005 year also contains approximately $251,000 in inventory write-down costs associated with the closure of our German sales office.

Costs of products also can vary as a percentage of product revenue from period to period depending upon product mix and the third party software license content, hardware content, and print media consumable content included in systems installed during a given period.

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Maintenance Cost of Revenues

Cost of maintenance revenues increased approximately 5%, or $53,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006 due primarily to higher costs incurred to service our expanding installed base.  Cost of maintenance revenues as a percentage of maintenance revenues decreased 2% during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006 due to higher maintenance revenues available to absorb fixed costs.

Cost of maintenance revenues as a percentage of maintenance revenues decreased approximately 12% during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period of 2005 due primarily to higher maintenance revenues to absorb fixed maintenance costs.  The dollar decrease during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 is reflective of a higher percentage of our maintenance revenues being generated from maintenance coverage on software only solutions which typically have lower maintenance costs than solutions comprised of both software and hardware components.

Product Gross Profit

Total product gross profit as a percentage of product revenues increased approximately 5% despite a dollar decrease of approximately $1,118,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period during 2005 due primarily to a higher percentage of total revenues coming from the sales of software and royalties which typically have lower costs than solutions containing significant amounts of hardware and consumables.

Total product gross profit as a percentage of product revenues increased approximately 12% or $1,173,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period during 2005 due primarily to higher product sales and a higher percentage of total revenues coming from the sales of software and royalties which typically have lower costs than solutions containing significant amounts of hardware and consumables.

The dollar decrease in gross profit of software and royalties of approximately 15% or $705,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006 is reflective of lower sales of software and royalties into project-oriented work of approximately $922,000 in the twelve month period ending December 31, 2007.

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The dollar increase in gross profit of software and royalties of approximately 50% or 1,558,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 is reflective of higher sales of software and royalties into project-oriented work of approximately $1,852,000 in the twelve month period ending December 31, 2006.

Hardware and consumable gross profit as a percentage of hardware and consumable product revenue decreased approximately 11% or $310,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006 due to lower sales of hardware and consumables of approximately $998,000 in the twelve month period ending December 31, 2007.

Hardware and consumable gross profit as a percentage of hardware and consumable product revenue increased approximately 20% or $221,000 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 despite lower sales due to the 2005 year containing approximately $251,000 in inventory write-down costs associated with the closure of our German sales office.

Maintenance Gross Profit

Total gross profit dollars related to maintenance revenues increased approximately $199,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 as compared to the corresponding period in 2006 due to higher maintenance revenues of approximately $252,000 offset by higher maintenance costs of $53,000.  Our increase in maintenance revenues reflects our expanding installed base combined with our retention of existing maintenance contracts.  Our increase in maintenance costs of $53,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2007 reflects increased labor costs.

Total gross profit dollars related to maintenance revenues increased approximately $556,000 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2006 as compared to the corresponding period in 2005 due to higher maintenance revenues to absorb fixed maintenance costs combined with the 2006 year containing a larger percentage of maintenance revenues being generated from maintenance coverage on software only solutions which typically have lower maintenance costs than solutions containing both software and hardware.

Operating Expenses