Axalto Consolidates Leadership Position in Public Sector with Order for Additional 800,000 Department of Defense Common Access Cards.AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands -- Since the beginning of the project, Axalto provided the DoD with more than 5.7 million certified smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. Axalto (EURONEXT:AXL)(EURONEXT:NL000400653) today announced that it received an order for 800,000 additional Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Cards (CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. ) from EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , a General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. (GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. ) smart card prime contractor for the program. With more than 5.7 million certified smart cards provided to the DoD, Axalto not only confirms its key role in supporting one of the largest ID smartcard deployments in the world, but is also a strong indicator of the continued growth of Axalto in the value-added smart card market. The CAC enables physical identification for building access and logical access for secure logon, secure emails and privilege-based access to secure networks and databases. As of today, the CAC program is rolled out in over 900 DoD locations worldwide, serving as the standard ID card for government staff (active duty military, selected reservists and National Guard, DoD civilian A Federal civilian employee of the Department of Defense directly hired and paid from appropriated or nonappropriated funds, under permanent or temporary appointment. Specifically excluded are contractors and foreign host nationals as well as third country civilians. employees and selected DoD contractors). "The Department of Defense has taken a leadership role in leveraging the benefits of smart cards," comments Olivier Piou, chief executive officer of Axalto. "This additional order for 800,000 Axalto smart cards is further testimony to their commitment to high quality standards, as well as to the strong level of trust they place in our company." The U.S. federal government expects to expand its programs to issue smart cards for strong authentication and as highly secure identity credentials, and is moving closer toward the goal of a common identity credential for both physical and logical access control across all of its branches. Programs are already underway or planned to issue new smart ID cards in numerous federal agencies, including Defense, State, GSA, Treasury, Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , Veterans Affairs and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . About Axalto Axalto (EURONEXT:AXL)(EURONEXT:NL000400653) is the world's leading provider of microprocessor cards (Gartner Dataquest 2004) -- the key to digital networks -- and a major supplier of point-of-sale terminals. Its 4500 employees come from 70 nationalities and serve customers in more than 100 countries, with worldwide sales reaching 3 billion smart cards to date. The company has 25 years' experience in smart card innovation and leads its industry in security technology and open systems. Axalto continuously creates new generations of products for use in a variety of applications in the telecommunications, finance, retail, transport, entertainment, healthcare, personal identification, information technology and public sector markets. Microprocessor cards provide convenience, security and privacy to public and private services operators, their customers and end users. For more information, visit us at www.axalto.com. |
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