The Defense Department is setting up a lab to test contactless smart cards and readers for industry standard compliance and interoperability. Mike Butler, DOD’s chief of smart-card programs for the ...

The Defense Department is making a number of improvements to the Common Access Card to enhance identity authentication and physical and network security. DoD image Traditional authentication ...

The Department of Defense will phase out the use of the Common Access Card for network login, replacing it with biometric identity authentication systems that are standardized between the U.S.

When one of the military’s top cybersecurity generals announced last week that he wanted to get rid of the Common Access Card (the credit card-sized identification badge used across the Department of ...

FORT SILL, Okla.-- Any person who has a 64K or 72K common access card must make an appointment at their servicing ID card facility and replace their card. To verify the validity of your card, look on ...

Picatinny Arsenal has transitioned to a new ID card scanning process at all installation access control points that is designed to strengthen safety and security. The Automated Installation Entry (AIE ...

ARLINGTON, VA - SEPTEMBER 26: Aerial photo of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virgina on September 26, 2003. (Photo by Andy Dunaway/USAF via Getty Images) The Pentagon will immediately begin issuing new ...

A new online Defense Department system aims to make life easier for dependent ID card holders -– and their sponsor. The system, called RAPIDS, lets common access card holders who need to get and renew ...

Since its introduction in the early 2000s, the Common Access Card (CAC) has become the most widely used Department of Defense (DoD) identity credential, with more than 24 million cards issued to date.

The U.S. military is a big place, and few things about the military experience are universal across all its ranks, branches, jobs and bases. But one thing that has remained a constant is the Common ...