On deck: New procurement, bigger chips, easier enrollment and activation
The General Services Administration’s HSPD-12 Managed Service Office (MSO) has quite the task ahead of it–enrolling, issuing and activating credentials for hundreds of thousands of federal employees nationwide and beyond.
Steve Duncan, program manager at the MSO, updated the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board on its activities and challenges in the process to procure and maintain PIV compliant credentials.
Since the office started operations in August 2007 it has enrolled 504,000 applicants into the system, according to Duncan, accounting for 71% of the MSO clients’ eligible populations.
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