Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology

Abstract

The federal government is increasingly interested in the use of smart cards - credit-card-like devices that use integrated circuit chips to store and process data for improving the security of its many physical and information assets. Besides better authentication of the identities of people accessing buildings and computer systems, smart cards offer a number of potential benefits and uses, such as creating electronic passenger lists for deploying military personnel, and tracking immunization and other medical records. Earlier this year, GAO reported on the use of smart cards across the federal government (GAO-03-144). GAO was asked to testify on the results of this work, including the challenges to successful adoption of smart cards throughout the federal government, as well as the governments progress in promoting this smart card adoption.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 09, 2003
Accession Number
AD1180793

Entities

People

  • Joel C. Willemssen

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Authentication
  • Biometrics
  • Border Security
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Identification
  • Information Systems
  • National Governments
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems