The deadline requires agencies simply to begin issuing biometric smart cards, but the cards have potential beyond being used for physical access to buildings and access to computers, he said.
Government Services Administration in concert with systems integrator Electronic Data Systems. The contract will provide smart-card access to all of the DoD’s 3.5 million military members and contractors, ActivIdentity said.ĪctivIdentity has worked with the DoD on smart-card deployments for about five years, but the new contract shows the company’s continued leadership in the evolution of smart cards, said Jason Hart, ActivIdentity’s chief executive officer.įriday’s deadline is just the start of an evolution of smart-card use in government, Hart said. agencies to begin issuing biometric-based smart cards by Friday.ĪctivIdentity didn’t disclose the value of the DoD contract, but company officials said the five-year agreement was awarded through the U.S. President George Bush’s Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which requires U.S. The military branches will use ActivClient to comply with U.S.
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Army and Air Force have chosen ActivIdentity’s desktop software package ActivClient 6.0 to authenticate holders of current and next-generation DoD smart cards as they log into DoD computers and networks, ActivIdentity announced Tuesday. government faces a deadline for using new identity cards. Department of Defense (DoD) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have chosen a smart-card authentication product from ActivIdentity as the U.S.
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