# Presentation: 656501

## Smart Cards in Government

- 18 November 2001
**The Smart Technologies Forum ****Management Guide to Smart Card Applications: ****Issues, Economics and Guidelines for E-Gov Planning & Implementation**
- Bill Holcombe
- Director, E-Business Technologies
- Office of Governmentwide Policy
- bill.holcombe@gsa.gov  202 208-7657

## What Is A Smart Card

- A piece of credit card sized plastic with an imbedded microprocessor
- Has power of early PC’s & fits in your wallet (or into a mobile phone)

## Commercial Multi-Application Cards

**Notes:**
A lot of you have heard about multi-application cards in the commerical world.  This graphic shows applications of high interest for smart cards.  Our government is also interested in multi-application cards.

## Smart Cards Are Not a Fad

- 7 billion cards expected globally by 20041

- 1 1999 Ovum Study

**Notes:**
To put things in perspective, in North America, we’re a drop in the bucket for sheer volumes compared to global usage of smart cards, but we intend to lead the way in the usage of multi-application cards.  Most of the 2 billion or so cards issued world wide are single application cards.

## Slide 5

## U.S. Government Took an Early Interest in Multi-application Smart Cards . . .

- From the President’s FY 98 Budget:
-  "The Administration wants to adopt ‘smart card’ technology so that, ultimately, every [Federal] employee will be able to use one card for a wide range of purposes, including travel, small purchases, and building access."

**Notes:**
Two years later, our President laid out a vision for use of smart cards by Federal employees.  See quote above.  This all fits in with our White House’s effort to reinvent Government to “cost less and work better”, to quote Vice President Al Gore.  Thus our goals for smart cards are:

Promote multi-application architecture 
Support program missions
Improve employee productivity
Migrate to open commercial platforms
Build toward Governmentwide applications
Encourage cardholder utilization
Safeguard privacy and confidentiality
Transition to E-Gov / E-Com / E-Business

## Slide 7

## Agencies with Smart Card Initiatives Under Way

**DOD wide**
**Navy**
**Army**
**Treasury**
**Dept of Veterans Affairs**
**GSA**
**State Dept**
**Social Security**

**USPS**
**Air Force**
**Marine Corps**
**DOT**
**NASA**
**USDA - HPP**
**FDIC**

**Notes:**
Here are some of the agencies moving forward with smart card initiatives.  Army started with the MARC card over 10 years ago for various campus applications for recruits.  The Navy has been an innovator and early adopter of this technology.  You’ll hear from Capt Pete Hyers later this afternoon on Navy’s programs and plans.  Treasury has worked with Army and VA on various e-purse and hospital projects.  State Dept is exploring replacing their worldwide pass system with chip cards.  Social Security has several programs where they plan to use smart cards.  I’ll be telling you more about the GSA programs.

## DOD Commitment toSmart Cards

**Notes:**
This year, the world’s largest Government organization, the U.S. military, has committed itself to the use of smart cards for all of its personnel.

## 10Nov99 Hamre Memo on Smart Card Adoption and Implementation

- “Now is the time to adopt smart cards throughout the Department . .
- “I direct all DoD Components to take actions necessary to implement the use of a standard DoD smart card . . .
- “The initial implementation of smart card technology shall be effected as a Department-wide common access card (CAC).  The CAC shall be the standard ID card for active duty military personnel (to include the Selected Reserve), DoD civilian employees and eligible contractor personnel.  It also will be the principal card used to enable physical access to buildings and controlled spaces and will be used to gain access to the Department’s computer networks and systems.

## Active duty  military

Selected Reserve/National Guard

DoD civilian employees

DoD contractors inside the firewall

(Approximately 4 million people)

**Selected Reserve/National Guard**
**DoD civilian employees**
**DoD contractors inside the firewall**
**(Approximately 4 million people)**

**WHO GETS A DOD ****SMART CARD? **

**Notes:**
The 4 million personnel of the military includes these categories who will receive a card in the first stages of implementation.

## The General Service Administration’sWillow Wood Multi-ApplicationSmart Card Initiative

**Notes:**
Moving on, I would like to describe an initiative we have undertaken at a new building we have outside of Washington, D.C.  The program in this case wanted a chip card to replace a handful of separate cards employees were carrying around in their wallets.   

## Willow Wood All-in-one Card

**Willow Wood All-in-one Card**

- After

- Before

- Government ID

- Travel Card

- American Airlines
- Ticketing

- Phone Card

- Purchase Card

**Notes:**
This graphic shows the 5 cards being replaced by a single all-in-one smart card:
	Government ID
	Travel Card	
	Purchase Card
	Phone Card
	Airline Card

## Card Functionality in GSACommon Access ID Procurement

**Identification **
**Physical Access Control**
**System (logical) Access Control**
**Digital Signature**
**Biometrics Capability**
**Property Management**
**Rostering**
**Training/Certifications**
**Medical Information**
**Electronic Forms Generation**
**Electronic Purse**
**Potential Commercial Applets**

**Notes:**
This slide lists applications that program managers in our government have requested.  We have turned this requirement into a “Common Access” smart card which will be purchased for applications and programs around the Government.  The “core” applications are listed above the line, applications which will be used by all Government agencies.  Some custom requirements of individual agencies are listed below the line.

## A NEED FOR SMART CARDS ?

**A NEED FOR SMART CARDS ?**

## E or Be Eaten

- For authentication over the Internet (and intranets) . .
- PKI on smart cards, because it’s

**E or Be Eaten**

## Demonstrating Technology 
GSA/Navy Technology Center

- <date/time>

- Demonstrating Technology
- GSA/Navy Technology Center

**For tours  202 208-3055**

**Notes:**
To learn more about U.S government smart card programs . . .  

When in Washington, D.C., take a tour of the joint Navy/GSA Technology Center which demonstrates a multi-application card with all of the applications listed on this slide.  Also request a tour of our Willow Wood building where GSA employees use the all-in-one card.

## Smartcard.gov

- Check out . . .
-   What’s New
-   Tutorial
-   Survey of initiatives (Smart Data)

- Where to learn about
- smart cards in the
- Federal Government

**Smartcard.gov**

## Smart Card Project Managers Group bi-monthly meetings.  Next meetings scheduled . . .

- November 9, 2000
- January 11, 2001
- All meetings (Government only)
-  start at 10 am at
- American Institute of Architects (AIA) Building
- 1725 New York Avenue, NW
- (directly across the street from GSA HQs)

- Where to learn about
- smart cards in the
- Federal Government

**Notes:**
If in Washington coincident with a bi-monthly meeting of the Governmentwide Smart Card Project Managers Group, come and hear Government leaders provide status reports on the latest initiatives.  If you can’t make it to beautiful Washington, D.C., tune in to our web site, www.smartcard.gov, for a wide range of information including multi-media tutorials on chip cards, a survey of U.S. smart card projects, key policy pronouncements, presentations from military and other leaders, and links to other smart card organizations in the States and around the world.