Smart cards are alive and well in Washington, D.C. even though some 28 projects have disappeared in the past 18 months.
That’s the one-line summary of a 30-page report issued in September by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress. The document was named for the conclusion it reached–Electronic Government: Federal Agencies Continue to Invest in Smart Card Technology–to which can be added that agencies have plans to issue millions of new cards to employees and other personnel in the coming months and years.
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