The Common Access Card (CAC) Certificate Reduction and Realignment Plan modifies the certificates on the CAC to streamline authentication functions under one certificate. The plan entails ...

A new online Defense Department system aims to make life easier for dependent ID card holders -– and their sponsor. The system, called RAPIDS, lets common access card holders who need to get and ...

CAC-based systems combine a digital card reader with PIN-based access or PKI certificate authentication to provide secure access to computer systems and Web sites. ActivCard products are GSC-IS ...

Previously, they needed a computer with a Common Access Card (CAC) to find resources on the Army Training Network (ATN) https://atn.army.mil/.

"Soldiers should not have to take out a smartcard, insert it into a card reader and then remember to remove the card from the reader when they are done," Ogedi Okwudishu, project lead for the ...