Probaris Inc., and its partners, issued 38 Virginia First Responder Authentication Credentials (FRACs) at the end of July in Chesapeake, Virginia. The just in time credential issuance effort was one segment of the multi-day Summer Sizzle electronic validation demonstration.

Summer Sizzle was hosted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, in conjunction with multiple states and state-level jurisdictions.

The purpose of the event in Chesapeake was to demonstrate just in time issuance of high-assurance credentials to emergency response personnel. Summer Sizzle also includes multiple scenarios to demonstrate the use of the credentials in disaster situations. The FRACs are interoperable with the FIPS 201 standard. The specification enables interoperability among credentials issued by disparate federal, state, and local jurisdictions.

Probaris equipped a mobile command center with its Probaris ID suite of identity products for the demonstration. The mobile command center traveled to disaster sites to issue FRACs to federal, state and local emergency responders. At the event last week, Probaris conducted the registration, enrollment, and issuance of FIPS 201 interoperable FRAC cards for state and local first responders in Virginia’s Hampton Roads community.

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