Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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OT-A Wave DoD sighting?


A recent article on the Government Computer New website had a report on "Operation Winter Fox," a test of interoperability of the new government common access cards and various state PIV cards. The story has Wave written all over it:



http://www.gcn.com/print/25_8/40411-1.html?topic=authentication

Some interesting excerpts below:



The Defense and Homeland Security departments, along with first responders from Maryland and Virginia, recently showed just how important trust is under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
In a one-day exercise called Winter Fox, employees from the four organizations used their own smart cards and digital certificates—compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard-201—to obtain validation at another’s location...

Later:


Winter Fox focused on first responders because of their need to move and communicate easily across jurisdictions.
Jones said that during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Virginia State Police would not accept DOD’s building pass as identification to get through roadblocks and to the Pentagon.
In the future, officials don’t want first responders to have similar problems. HSPD-12-compliant first-responder cards will be color-coded, and states are following the same scheme, said Ken Wall, deputy director of DHS’ Office of the National Capital Region Coordination.


Further down the cards are described:


All the cards were single-chip, dual-interface 64KB cards with either two-factor or three-factor authentication. The cards met FIPS-201, Personal Identification Verification I standards. The smart cards used different certificate authorities, but they all met federal standards outlined under the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy.


And last, most interestingly-the handheld reader



The responders placed their cards into handheld readers and entered their personal identification numbers. The device used the PIN to verify information stored on the card and in the reader.

Could the handheld reader be an E2100?


This may have been a part of what Wave has been doing for that 319,000 dollar contract.

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