HID Global announced that it has been selected to supply its Fargo HDP5000-LC printer/encoders to the U.S. Department of Defense Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). As part of the DMDC’s migration to the next generation of ID card printers, the HDP5000-LC units will be utilized throughout the DMDC. The primary use of the Fargo HDP5000-LC […]

The September meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

SecuGen announced that its SDA04 fingerprint scanner has been certified by the FBI as compliant with FIPS 201 requirements. FIPS 201 places requirements on the image quality of fingerprint devices as established by the FBI’s Image Quality Specifications. The SDA04 is an OEM module consisting of a fingerprint sensor and processing board that can store […]

UPEK Inc., a biometric fingerprint provider, announced the availability of its new TCEFx1 USB fingerprint module, which uses the company’s FIPS 201 certified TouchChip TCS1 fingerprint sensor. The UPEK TCEFx1 module is compact, simple to integrate, and enables for biometric authentication with ANSI 378 fingerprint templates stored on U.S. Government issued Personal Identity Verification cards. […]

The annual Smart Cards in Government conference will take place just a few days before the ominous October 27 PIV issuance deadline and just weeks before the Presidential election that is likely to impact many of the identification initiatives at the federal level. Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, talks with re:ID […]

Digital Identification Solutions announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected its EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printers system wide to produce FIPS 201 compliant PIV credentials. NASA, through one of its system integrators, will be installing multiple EDIsecure XID 590ie Professional Retransfer ID Card Printers with Inline Lamination Units and inline smart card […]

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Organizations are looking at the spec, but not a lot of deployments yet By Zack Martin, Editor Many people agree that FIPS 201 is a good technical specification, but its acceptance outside the U.S. government remains slow. That might not be for long though. Other governments and private organizations are looking at the standard, which […]

HID Global announced that its Fargo HDP5000-LC High Definition Printer has been certified as FIPS 201 compliant by the United States General Services Administration and placed on the FIPS 201 Approved Products List. The certification enables government agencies and other organizations to use HID Global’s HDP technology to comply with the FIPS 201 standard as […]

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 […]