ActivCard the leading provider of smart card and digital identity provisioning products and technology announced that its ActivCard Gold version 2.0, the second generation of its standards-based smart card software, has been selected for deployment by the Department of the Navy and the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.
ActivCard was the first vendor to deliver smart card software compliant with the GSA Smart Access Common Identification Interoperability specification. Now, working with the GSA and its prime contractors, including Electronic Data Systems (EDS), ActivCard’s solution has been selected for deployment. ActivCard Gold v2.0 is tightly integrated with the ActivCard smart card and digital identity provisioning and issuance solution deployed by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). This system is being used to issue Common Access Cards (CACs) to over 4 million Department of Defense (DoD) uniformed services personnel, civilian employees, and eligible contractors.
“Our partnership with ActivCard began at the DMDC in 1999 and has evolved to include projects both within the DoD and in other large scale deployments of smart cards outside of the DoD,” said Joe Rozmeski of EDS. “Interoperability and ActivCard’s support of the GSA standards have been key in our successful partnership.”
The DOD has employed ActivCard as one of its vendors for two distinct, but interoperable solutions for the CAC program — the smart card issuance software and the smart card usage software. The first, announced on October 10, 2000, delivered the smart card and digital identity provisioning and issuance system currently being used by the DMDC to issue CACs throughout the DoD. The second, announced today, is for the end user workstation software required by individual DoD components, such as the Navy, to use the card for increased security through digital identity, network login, digital signature, and employee information management. While the two solutions are independent, especially from an acquisition and deployment perspective, they interoperate seamlessly in compliance with CAC interoperability specifications.
“ActivCard has become the vendor of choice among leading public- and private-sector organizations, as evidenced by a series of wins and implementations,” said Senior Vice President Tom Arthur. Recent developments include ActivCard’s role in the DoD CAC program, the DMDC’s selection of ActivCard smart card and digital identity provisioning technology, and ActivCard’s selection by the leaders in network computing including Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems for their own internal smart card deployments. And not only is ActivCard Gold v2.0 being selected for initial deployments within the Navy and the DMDC, it continues to be evaluated by several other DoD organizations.
About ActivCard
ActivCard, a leader in digital identity and electronic certification technology, delivers core components required to enable next generation e-Business communications and transactions. ActivCard solutions, in conjunction with the applications support for public key-based data confidentiality, and integrity, allow individuals and businesses to perform secure online transactions over the Internet with the ease-of-use of an ATM transaction. Today, more than 2 million people use ActivCard products for secure Internet banking, Web access and remote access to corporate networks. ActivCard has headquarters in Fremont, California, and Suresnes, France with worldwide operations in Australia, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
