Current Projects
Department of State, IDMS/CMS & PACS
1998-Present
The XTec Team provides the State Department with a flexible
and cost-effective solution for new employee and contractor
smart card credentials. XTec is currently supporting the
deployment of the system to over 130,000 State Department
employees. With the implementation of this physical access
system, the State Department was one of the first agencies
to follow the GSA Interoperability Specification and has
been a leader in HSPD-12 compliance. XTec serves as Department
of State’s HSPD-12-approved systems integrator. The
PIV-II cards are used the way HSPD-12 intends; the cards
serve not only as smart card identification badges, but
have the background investigation behind their issuance
and are use for physical access. Department of State is
also issuing and managing credentials for 9 other agencies,
including Peace Corps and USAID.
“This was not about issuing a new FIPS 201 card.
With State Department using smart cards since 1998, our
first card issued had to work across the enterprise. Ensuring
the cards work in all the access control points was not
an option, but a requirement. We are pleased to have met
this objective,” Tony Mosley, Branch Chief of State
Department said. “XTec and our other team members,
including the 70 plus State Department HSPD-12 committee
members did a great job achieving this important objective.”
XTec has been supporting DoS since
1998. XTec was part of a team contracted to design, build,
and deploy a state of the art smart card access control
solution. The card was to be used by various departments
within the State Department and be interoperable with other
Federal Government deployments. XTec’s original role
was as subcontractor to Northrop Grumman, providing subject
matter experts and technology. During the first phase of
the project, the XTec Team conducted a requirements study
of integrated circuit (IC) cards and related technology.
The XTec Team also reviewed the DoS requirements for physical
access control, card issuance and logical security. After
the final requirements were identified, an Implementation
Plan was drafted. The Team was subsequently awarded the
second phase of the project, which entailed implementing
the requirements that were identified in Phase I, including
a Visitor Control System and Smart Card Issuance and Production.
The Team installed programmable, combination readers that
provided an additional level of flexibility to the DoS by
allowing the readers to accept several types of input. These
readers also interface with three different access control
systems.
The Team also supported State Department throughout many
phases of the integration process; including the integration
of the Card Issuance System to existing legacy and new access
control systems. The strength of the Team solution is evidenced
by interoperability of this system with GSA Headquarters,
Treasury Department, and Department of Homeland Security.
Members from different agencies, most notably the intelligence
community, can also use their magnetic stripe cards to gain
access to State Department facilities after their credential
has been authenticated and permissions granted. The readers
that were installed for the DoS are able to read both the
CAC and the GSA card. The Team solution also provided an
added level of security to readers by utilizing strong authentication
techniques between the smart card and readers and providing
counterfeit detection capabilities on an ICC memory chip
to detect fraudulent visitor cards. 
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