[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 15, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 55586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20740]


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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: 
[email protected]).

For Further Information Contact: Curt Barker (e-mail: [email protected]; 
telephone: 301-975-8443; fax 301-948-1233) or Dr. Dennis Branstad (e-
mail: [email protected]; 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.
[FR Doc. 04-20740 Filed 9-14-04; 8:45 am]
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