Exhibit 99.2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Sarah LaLiberte
Aware, Inc.
781-687-0695
SARAHL@AWARE.COM


          AWARE, INC. APPOINTS KEITH FARRIS AS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER



BEDFORD, MASS. - MAY 31, 2006 - Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a worldwide leader
and innovator of broadband intellectual property, today announced that Keith
Farris has joined the company as vice president and chief financial officer.
Previous CFO Rob Weiskopf is departing to pursue other interests.

Mr. Farris was most recently with Lojack Corporation where he was chief
financial officer (2000-2006) during a period of rapid growth in revenues and
profits. He brings over 25 years of experience in senior financial management
positions at Lojack, Arkwright Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation, and
public accounting experience at the firm of Ernst & Young. Mr. Farris holds a BA
in accounting and an MBA from Northeastern University and is a Certified Public
Accountant.

Michael A. Tzannes, Aware's chief executive officer, said, "Keith is joining
Aware at a time that the company's DSL and biometrics products have positioned
us for revenue and earnings growth. His financial and management experience are
welcomed additions to the Aware team. I also want to express my thanks to Rob
for his contributions at Aware over the last several years. We all wish him the
best for the future."

About Aware

Aware, Inc. designs, develops, licenses and markets DSL technologies that enable
broadband communications over existing telephone networks. Its solutions,
including splitterless G.lite, full-rate ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, VDSL2, Bonded
ADSL2+, Dr. DSL(R), StratiPHY(TM), StratiPHY-Bonded(TM), StratiPHY2+(TM),
StratiPHY3(TM) and G.SHDSL, address central office as well as customer premise
requirements. Aware is also a leading provider of standards-based biometric
transaction and image compression software toolkits. More information can be
found at HTTP://WWW.AWARE.COM.






Safe Harbor Warning

Portions of this release contain forward-looking statements regarding future
events and are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as estimates or
projections of future revenue and earnings and the growth of the DSL market.
Aware wishes to caution you that there are factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the results indicated by such statements.
These factors include, but are not limited to: we have a unique business model,
our quarterly results are difficult to predict, we depend on a limited number of
licensees, we derive a significant amount of revenue from a small number of
customers, we depend on equipment companies to incorporate our technology into
their products, we face intense competition from other DSL vendors, DSL
technology competes with other technologies for broadband access, and our
business is subject to rapid technological change. We refer you to the documents
Aware files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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       DR. DSL, STRATIPHY, STRATIPHY2+, STRATIPHY3, AND STRATIPHY-BONDED ARE
TRADEMARKS OR REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF AWARE, INC.