Department of Defense explores future form factors, PKI applications
It was 10-year ago this past October when the first U.S. Defense Department Common Access Card was issued. Since then the largest U.S. agency has issued 24 million of the smart card-based secure credentials.
In that time the staff at the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), the group within DOD responsible for issuing the card, went from simply issuing an ID card to truly managing with identity, says Mike Butler, deputy director of identity services at the DMDC.
Butler was with the Defense Department when it first issued the credential and rejoined the agency in August 2010 after three years away.
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