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Report Card on HSPD-12: How Many PIV Cards Have Been Issued?

How federal agencies are doing in the race to issue HSPD-12 PIV cards

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April 17, 2007 — CSO —

Starting March 1, the White House Office of Management and Budget requires that agencies post quarterly updates on their public websites reporting how far along they are in issuing the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards that allow them to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. (The PDF for this order is located here.) As far as CSO knows, there has been no central clearinghouse publicly compiling information on how agencies are doing as a whole. Below, our best attempt to locate the websites and add up the numbers.

Departments Number of employees requiring PIV cards Number of PIV cards issued
Department of Agriculture 107,000 7
Department of Commerce 44,252 4
Department of Defense (Has posted information on internal site, not publicly) n/a n/a
Department of Education n/a n/a
Department of Energy 13,618 5
Department of Housing and Urban Development n/a n/a
Department of Health and Human Services n/a n/a
Department of Homeland Security n/a n/a
Department of Interior* 64,338 17
Department of Justice n/a n/a
Department of Labor 15,378 11
Department of State 19,865 915
Department of Transportation 52,979 6
Department of Treasury 121,461 5
Department of Veterans Affairs 241,000 430

Independent agencies/boards, commissions and committees Number of employees requiring PIV cards Number of PIV cards issued
Commodity Futures Trading Commission 454 5
Consumer Product Safety Commission 401 4
Environmental Protection Agency 17,000 14
Equal Opportunity Employment Commission 2,200 1
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 1 1
Federal Communications Commission 1,800 11
Federal Reserve Bank 1,975 2
Federal Maritime Commission 121 2
Federal Trade Commission 1,089 3
General Services Administration* 4,110 5
Merit Systems Protection Board 230 4
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 18,750 0
National Archives 3,015 3
National Credit Union Administration 949 1
National Science Foundation 1,390 31
Nuclear Regulatory Commission 3,500 1
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight 224 3
TOTAL (for both departments and independent agencies) 737,100 1,491

Based on data reported March 1. Last updated March 19, 2007.

*Both the Department of Interior and the General Services Administration are acting as shared service providers and issuing cards for other agencies. The numbers listed above do not include cards those agencies have issued to other agences. For a complete list of cards that the Department of Interior has issued, see this report posted by the Department of Interior National Business Center. In all, National Business Center reports that it has issued 46 of the 73,761 cards it is required to issue. We have not included those numbers above because there is some duplication where the agency also has posted its own report.

For an updated version of this HSPD-12 report card, see Report Card on Government’s Compliance With Secure ID Mandate. If you know of a public report that we have not yet located, please send the URL so that we can include it. You can send an e-mail to Sarah Scalet at sscalet@cxo.com.

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For our past, in-depth coverage, see "HSPD-12: A fast-approaching smart card deadline for federal agencies could be the seminal moment for bringing together physical and logical access control. But is the government trying to do too much too soon?"

Read more about access control in CSOonline's Access Control section.

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