WidePoint Subsidiary ORC Participates in Successful Demonstration of FiXs Solution for Military Credentials and Access Cards

WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WidePoint Corporation (NYSE Amex: WYY), a specialist in wireless mobility management and cybersecurity solutions, today announced that WidePoint's subsidiary Operational Research Consultants, Inc. (ORC) participated with the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) and several FiXs member companies in a successful demonstration and test of a unique open and interoperable solution to authenticate and validate smartcard-based federated identities. This capability specifically targets military personnel, vendors and partners at U.S. military bases around the world. Demonstration of the solution, which includes mobile hand held authentication stations, was recently conducted at the Identity Protection Management Conference in Minneapolis.

FiXs is a not-for-profit Federation of commercial companies, government contractors and not-for-profit organizations. ORC is a FiXs-Certified Credential Issuer and provides administrative and production security services for FiXs.  

FiXs member companies ORC, Data Systems Analysts (DSA), and Intellicheck Mobilisa conducted the demonstration alongside the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which issues the Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC).  The demonstration successfully proved electronic authentication and validation of the various credentials at both the DMDC Defense National Visitor Center (DNVC) and FiXs authentication stations (static and mobile), confirming the achievement of a long sought interoperable security solution. The solution demonstrated is operational throughout the DoD and can be implemented in DoD and the FiXs certified authentication applications and work stations via certified FiXs members and existing applications.

A DNVC authentication station was used to read and authenticate CACs and FiXs certified credentials, enabling personnel to use fingerprints, photographs and other information to quickly verify any user via an authoritative source. This real-time, on-line demonstration showcased a system that can significantly reduce costs and increase security at the base perimeter and beyond.

WidePoint CTO, Daniel E. Turissini commented, "The successful demonstration was simple, straight forward and response times were excellent." Turissini further added, "We were also pleased to introduce the integration of the Intellicheck Mobilisa hand held authentication station to the FiXs solution, enabling robust and secure identity checking at any perimeter access point.  This added feature allowed the ability to bring needed security and reliability to multiple access points at each of the 200+ military bases around the world."

The current deployment of the Intellicheck Mobilisa stations currently at over 80 bases coupled with the FiXs capability provides an opportunity for the accelerated installation of a cost effective system easily scaled across the full spectrum of DoD facilities.  The combined DoD/FiXs solution offers the only enterprise-wide capability to electronically authenticate and validate the identity of approximately 3.5 million CAC holders and potentially over 40 million dependants, retirees, contractors, vendors and trading partners holding an approved credential.

Dr. Michael Mestrovich, president of FiXs, said, "This marks an important milestone for the adoption of federated identity authentication services.  As FiXs and other federations are able to certify and accredit various federated applications and services, communities of interest across the nation will be able to leverage trusted federated identity credentials required for decisions applying to both physical and logical access to resources, data and facilities used for protecting critical infrastructure assets, businesses and the public."

About FiXs

Founded in 2004 and based in Fairfax, Virginia, the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) is a 501-c-6 not-for-profit Federation of commercial companies, government contractors and not-for-profit organizations. The FiXs network is a secure, scalable system that provides trusted, interoperable identity verification and credential authentication for network users accessing a range of government and commercial facilities. The FiXs network meets federally-mandated requirements, supports physical and logical access applications, and integrates with an organization's existing personnel system, while leveraging the network's economies of scale. For more information, visit www.fixs.org

About WidePoint

WidePoint is a specialist in providing wireless mobility management and cybersecurity solutions utilizing its advanced information technology products and services. WidePoint has several wholly owned subsidiaries holding major government and commercial contracts including, Operational Research Consultants, Inc., iSYS, LLC, Protexx, Advanced Response Concepts Corporation and WidePoint IL. WidePoint enables organizations to deploy fully compliant IT services in accordance with government-mandated regulations and advanced system requirements. For more information, visit http://www.widepoint.com.

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