BROOKFIELD - A tiny Brookfield company is positioned to be on the front line of homeland defense.

Zerco Systems International is preparing to supply border check-points in the southern United States with terminals to read new high-technology identification cards.

The federal government has issued millions of cards to foreigners who are permanent residents here or who travel in and out of the country for work, said John Soltesz, Zerco chief executive.

The cards appear like and ID card on the front, but the back looks and acts like a compact disc. Optical memory technology allows the reflective material to be burned with vast amounts of information, including fingerprints, photos and dates and times of entry to the country.

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