HSPD-12 round-upXTEC wins National Science Foundation HSPD-12 contract
Deal follows recent contract with Department of Labor; XTEC will integrate its AuthentX card management system with NSF’s physical access control system; success for a company recently aggrieved by GSA and BearingPoint
Following up on a $7.8 million card contract with the Department of Labor, Miami, Florida-based XTEC this week announced a deal with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to begin incorporating the company’s HSPD-12 compliance systems. In addition to supplying the cards themselves, XTEC will also merge its PIV-enabled AuthentX card management system with the NSF’s physical access control system.
It was just recently in June that the company was certified by the General Services Administration (GSA) as an end-to-end integration service provider, and the latest deal shows XTEC off and running without a hitch. (Well, there has been one hiccup: the company has joined EDS in a formal protest of a GSA decision to award BearingPoint a $104 milion HSPD-12 contract, saying that the contract should have been allocated to a single company). As of press time, there was no information available regarding which, if any, biometric component would be included in the system being supplied to NSF, but we note that the AuthentX system is offered with a fingerprint scanning option and is flexible enough to incorporate any of the various biometric approaches in the market.
-read more in this news release; company Web site
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