Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

CoreStreet's Bys serving All Hazards Consortium

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

CoreStreet announced that John Bys, senior vice president at the company, has been asked to serve in a volunteer liaison capacity to the All Hazards Consortium. In this role, Bys will work with key state stakeholders on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Working Group to help facilitate collaboration between the states and the federal government on critical credentialing related issues of emergency response interoperability.

The role of the consortium’s liaison is to provide support to the states, including N.C., Washington, Md., Va., W.V., Del., Pa., N.J. and N.Y., in their collaboration efforts with leaders from the public and private sectors, higher education, research, non-profit and volunteer organizations. [end] 

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