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Q: What are the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements? A: The PIV requires that Federal agencies issue secure and reliable forms of personal identification:
• Based on sound criteria to verify an individual employee’s identity
• Strongly resistant to fraud, tampering, counterfeiting, and terrorist exploitation
• Rapid electronic verification of personal identity
• Identity tokens issued only by providers whose reliability has been established by an official accreditation process
• Applicable to all government organizations and contractors
• To be used to grant access to Federally-controlled facilities and logical access to Federally-controlled information systems
• Not applicable to identification associated with national security systems
• To be implemented in a manner that protects individual privacy Last Updated: 9/25/2009 8:37:30 PM

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