Aware, Inc. is a biometrics software and services company. The firm's products are used in government and commercial biometrics systems, which are capable of determining or verifying an individual's identity. It also provides interoperable, standards-compliant, field-proven biometric functionality, used to capture, verify, format, compress and decompress biometric images, as well as aggregate, analyze, process, and transport those images within biometric systems. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.