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Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

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Federal agencies scramble to meet security deadline

By Ellen Messmer, Network World, 09/15/06

Two years ago President George Bush ordered the federal government to be ready by this Oct. 27 to issue a standards-based identity card that federal employees and government contractors would use for computer and building access.

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The intention of the order, known as the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), was to usher in a new generation of encryption-based smart cards with biometrics and photos to be used government-wide for physical and logical access. The Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program, as it's come to be called, has federal agencies scrambling to issue PIV identity cards by the deadline, but it is unclear if they will be able to meet that goal.

For one, the $104 million HSPD-12 services contract, awarded last month by the General Services Administration (GSA) to systems integrator BearingPoint to provide PIV enrollment services and identity cards, is up in the air. Competitors Lockheed Martin, Xtec and Electronic Data Systems filed legal protests two weeks ago. When a contract is protested - a common occurrence in the world of government - the work usually stops. But not this time.

To meet the Oct. 27 deadline, the GSA - designated by the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) last year as the executive agent for government-wide acquisitions of HSPD-12-related IT- is plowing on.

The GSA says BearingPoint has been instructed to go ahead as planned and open PIV enrollment centers in Washington, D.C., New York, Atlanta and Seattle.

"The whole intent is to improve the security of the U.S.," says Michel Kareis, PIV program manager at the GSA. "The GSA is setting these centers up as a shared services solution so agencies don't have to set them up on their own."