NASA will continue its ten-year relationship with Entrust increasing its utilization of the company’s PKI solutions. Via the One NASA initiative, each of the agencies facilities are standardizing on the Entrust Shared Service Provider offering through the Department of Treasury. The certificates empower NASA’s FIPS 201 PIV cards to secure e-mail, digitally sign agency forms […]

Sagem Sécurité has won a seven-year contract to produce 12 million secure drivers licenses and vehicle registration cards for Morocco. At the core of the system is the contactless smartcard provided by Sagem Orga GmbH. During a police check, an officer will pass the card over a smartcard reader to access the data stored in […]

The Singapore Standard 529 Smart Card ID (SSID) has a new standard, based on information specifications in Singapore’s e-passport, which will enable one card to be used for access control, retail or transportation. The standard will allow Singapore industries to match up to international technical standards, thus giving Singaporean businesses an edge in open market […]

Cross Match will deliver its L SCAN® Guardian™ ten-print fingerprint systems to 10 metropolitan airports to upgrade the current Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) United States Visitors Immigrant Status and Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program which feature two-prints only. Airports which will receive the Guardian system include Atlanta, Boston, New York, Orlando and San Francisco. Cross […]

Denver-based RFID Ltd., said Friday the cost of remaining publicly traded was too great, and it is not generating enough revenue to cover expenses, reports Denver Business Journal. “RFID Ltd. has undergone a major resource loss of both operating capital and human capital,” the company’s written statement said, noting that the trend has hurt its […]

ICAO’s latest MRTD (Machine Readable Travel Documents) report includes an interview with Barry Kefauver, formerly of the US Department of State, who confronts recent media and hacker claims surrounding the security and privacy of contactless chips. In particular Kefauver, who currently chairs the ISO Task Force on new technologies of the TAG/MRTD on the security […]

Datastrip Inc. has launched its latest product, the DSV2+TURBO handheld biometric terminal. Certified under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), the DSV2+TURBO is designed for federal, state and local applications requiring on-the-spot ID verification. It is capable of reading a wide array of cards including both contact and contactless chips. The DSV2+TURBO features a “large-screen […]