GPO issues contracts for e-passports
The Government Printing Office has issued two contracts to producers of contactless smart chips to furnish large-scale quantities of electronic passport covers.
HSPD-12 products update
EDS Corp.'s Assured Identity platform recently gained approval for use in agencies' Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12-compliant systems.
E-passport security leaves something to be desired
Technologist shows how data on the passports could be accessed, manipulated and copied.
Security issues mar TWIC
Significant vulnerabilities in the Transportation Workers Identification Credential program thwart its ability to protect sensitive data, according to DHS' inspector general.
Advisory group calls for standardized e-medical records
A federally chartered IT advisory group approved a recommendation on Aug. 1 to request that the federal government identify and prioritize by October the key data elements to be used in a medical electronic record available to first responders.
Clouds gather over PASS card delay proposal
Legislation that would delay a pending requirement that citizens re-entering the country present secure citizenship and ID credentials took a hit today as an influential senator pledged opposition against the measure.
NIST proposes specs for PIV card readers
The National Institute for Standards and Technology has released for comment a draft of interoperability requirements for PIV card readers.
GSA warns public of e-mail scam
The General Services Administration is alerting the public not to respond to a phishing scam that masks itself coming from FirstGov.gov and asks for personal credit card information.
Contactless CACs slated for 10 DOD locations
Members of the Defense Department's Access Card Office like to say they eat their own dogfood in testing the contactless smart-identification card. In a pilot program, employees traded their Common Access Cards for a newer version that has both contact and contactless capabilities.
Administration presses its case for the PASS card
The administration and other proponents of new border credential requirements circulated talking points to quash changes the Senate has adopted for its Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, set for debate in a conference committee on the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill.
PASS card debate enters next round
The bell rang last week for a new round in the tag-team wrestling match over the best technology for border crossing credentials. The border credential smackdown will reach its climax after Congress' August recess, when a conference committee on the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill is set to decide the matter.
GSA to seek smart card for Social Security
The General Services Administration will issue solicitations seeking smart-card services and devices next month on behalf of the Social Security Administration.
The future of authentication
If you want to know where authentication technology is going, take a look at what vendors are offering to the health care and financial-services industries.
Building the PIV team
HSPD-12 touches more than just IT.
Interoperability is an access problem
Any access-control system probably will have to work with a wide variety of applications, some of them off-the-shelf, some homegrown, some up-to-date and some legacies.
Security in numbers
Government is a major driver in the use of multifactor authentication, both in its regulations for the health care and banking industries and in its own applications. When it comes to controlling network access, agencies find two factors are better than one.
FEMA database to ID first responders
Documentation for millions of emergency personnel nationwide is being aggregated into a National Emergency Responder Credentialing System.
DHS' technology check is in the mail
Congress is building a Homeland Security Department funding pi'ata'with technology-laced spending sweeteners for every state and congressional district'that is on a fast track for enactment before fiscal 2007 begins on Oct. 1.
HSPD-12 shared-services solicitation expanded
The General Services Administration has added a new milestone to the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 shared-services request for proposals and is working on an agreement for agencies to obtain services once they are set up.
USPS gets a lift
When the Postal Service launched an initiative to better maintain safety records for its industrial vehicles, the goal was modest'reduce the agency's reporting burden. Well over a year later, though, the Powered Industrial Vehicle Management System has produced a significant number of benefits, not only automating the reporting process but improving safety and helping USPS better manage its industrial fleet.
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