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About this update from Intercede Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n Intercede Group PLC\n20 November 2006\n\n20 November 2006\n\n\n\n INTERCEDE GROUP plc\n ('Intercede' or 'the Company')\n\n Additional US Federal Government Wins\n\nIntercede is delighted to inform the market that Operational Research\nConsultants, Inc. (ORC), a wholly owned subsidiary of WidePoint Corporation, and\na RSA Security partner, has signed contracts with both the Federal Trade\nCommission (FTC) and the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) to provide\nend-to-end managed services in support of their Homeland Security Presidential\nDirective 12 (HSPD-12) compliance. ORC's hosted PIVotal ID Card Management\nSystem (CMS), powered by the RSA Card Manager will provide both agencies with\nend-to-end PIV card enrolment, issuance and management services. RSA Card\nManager is powered by Intercede's MyID technology under an OEM licence agreement\nannounced in 2005. Whilst the revenues from these contracts will not be\nmaterial in Intercede's current financial year, the Directors believe that they\nare further evidence of the growing market traction being achieved by the MyID\ntechnology.\n\nRichard Parris, Chairman & Chief Executive of Intercede, commented:\n\n\n'Intercede are delighted that both the FTC and the FHFB have selected MyID\npowered solutions from RSA Security and its partners. This announcement\ndemonstrates that MyID has the flexibility and scalability to work not only as a\nstand-alone product, but also in a hosted environment, such as ORC, where\nmultiple technologies and solutions are integrated to deliver an end-to-end\nservice.'\n\nHSPD-12 is one of the most important and high profile security directives of\nrecent years. It was issued by President Bush himself in August 2004 and\nrequired, firstly, the creation of an official federal standard (FIPS-201) for\nPersonal Identity Verification (PIV), which would prescribe technologies and\nprocesses for the effective vetting and access control of all federal employees\nand contractors. The second requirement of HSPD-12 was for every US Federal\nAgency to have implemented a PIV solution by the end of October 2006, with all\nemployees and contractors required to have a personal-201 compliant, smart card\nbased identity card one year later. Each of these cards will be issued and\nmanaged using a management system such as MyID.\n\nAll HSPD-12 solutions must by ma...