[Federal Register: September 15, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 178)]
[Notices]
[Page 55586]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Announcing a Public Workshop on Personal Identity Verification
(PIV) of Federal Employees/Contractors
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
ACTION: Notice of public workshop.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
announces a public workshop to obtain information on secure and
reliable methods of verifying the identity of Federal employees and
Federal contractors who are authorized access to Federal facilities and
Federal information systems. An agenda and related information for the
workshop will be available before the workshop from the NIST Computer
Security Resource Center Web site at http://csrc.nist.gov. This
workshop is not being held in anticipation of a procurement activity.
DATES: The PIV Public workshop will be held on October 7, 2004, from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The PIV Public workshop will take place in a hotel facility
in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Information about the meeting location and
hotel accommodations will be available at http://csrc.nist.gov by
September 8, 2004.
Registration: Registration prior to 5 p.m. October 3, 2004, is
required. All registrations must be done online at https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/.
Please go to this Conference Registration link
and complete the registration form for the October 7, 2004 PIV Public
Workshop. The registration fee is $95.00 and will include a continental
breakfast and a deli-style lunch. A visitor's identification badge will
be issued to all registered participants. The registrar for the
workshop is Teresa Vicente (telephone: 301-975-3883; e-mail:
teresa.vicente@nist.gov).
For Further Information Contact: Curt Barker (e-mail: wbarker@nist.gov;
telephone: 301-975-8443; fax 301-948-1233) or Dr. Dennis Branstad (e-
mail: Branstad@nist.gov; telephone: 301-975-4060) for technical
information regarding the workshop.
Background Information: On August 27, 2004, President Bush signed
the Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-12 (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040827-8.html
) establishing
a policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and
Contractors. This Directive states that the Secretary of Commerce shall
promulgate a Federal standard within six months that assures secure and
reliable forms of identification of Federal Employees and Federal
Contractor Employees in many applications. The principal objectives of
the standard are to create a secure and reliable automated system that
may be used Government-wide to: (1) Establish the authentic true
identity of an individual; (2) issue an PIV token (e.g., smartcard) to
each authenticated individual which can later be used to verify the
identity of the individual using appropriate technical means when
access to a secure Federal facility or information system is requested;
(3) be based on graduated criteria that provide appropriate levels of
assurance and security to the application; (4) be strongly resistant to
identity fraud, counterfeiting, and exploitation by individuals,
terrorist organizations, or conspiracy groups; and (5) initiate
development and use of interoperable automated systems meeting these
objectives.
NIST is planning to propose a Federal Information Processing
Standard (FIPS) tentatively entitled Personal Identity Verification as
the primary document specified in HSPD-12. The envisioned standard may
likely address operational requirements and the technical framework,
architecture, and specifications for an automated system that will
provide secure and reliable forms of identification to be issued by the
Federal Government to its employees and contractors (including
contractor employees). We anticipate that the technical focus will
primarily be on electronic identity verification and access
authorization credentials securely contained in an integrated-circuit
token (e.g., smartcard) containing biometric characteristics (e.g.,
fingerprint image, facial image) of the individual to whom the token
was issued for later identity verification. The standard shall not
apply to identification associated with national security systems as
defined by 44 U.S.C. 3542(b)(2).
Authority: NIST is conducting this workshop in accordance with
HSPD-12 and within its authority under the Federal Information
Security Management Act of 2002, the Information Technology
Management Reform Act of 1996, Executive Order 13011, and OMB
Circular A-130.
Dated: September 9, 2004.
Hratch G. Semerjian,
Acting Director.
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