Pentagon Taps Contractors for ID Card Help

CIO, June, 2007 by Deb Radcliff

The goal was to create a federated identity system over a secure network that would allow private-sector contractors to use their company’s employee badges to access bases, labs, plants and other secure facilities around the world. That same system also would have to meet credentialing requirements for access to information systems, as demanded by HSPD-12. (Read more about the HSPD-12 project here.)

What resulted was the completion late last year of the first leg of an experimental, third-party intermediary cross-credentialing network called the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs). A second phase, aimed at integrating this network for access systems, should be completed in a year, says Mary Dixon, director of the Defense Manpower Data Center....

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