Hold onto CAC cards; lost card is a big deal

Tinker officials are cautious about protecting basic identity cards because of the large number of common access cards that were lost or stolen. (Margolite's Air Force Photo Illustration)

CAC cards are exchanged everyday, of which one-third is used to repeat the violation. Statistics may not cause an alarm, but it attracted the attention of grassroots officials. After all, only 5% of the lost cards were discovered and launched

"This is really serious," Katrina Colbert said. And he confirmed the official at the customer support office of the military department of 72 force support teams. "There is terror every day there."

Justin Collins, a special representative of the Counter Intelligence Department at 114 of the Special Investigation Bureau, also agreed.

"When OSI is informed that CAC cards are reported or lost, it is not easy to accept people trying to gain the right to install because there are many illegal reasons," he says It was.

There is no evidence that there is a "black market" in the CAC card, but Colbert said that the leadership of Tinker took several measures to control the number of cards circulated.

If civilians, active military personnel, reserve soldiers or contractors need new cards, they must first talk to the commander or the director of their unit or group and have a letter signed by that person Hmm. . In addition, they must complete the air force form 1168, suspect / witness / complaint statement, and bring two forms of photo recognition. Contractors also need to pay $ 50 on new cards.

Mr. Colbert said that the CAC card is used by government computers and is used as a basis for identification and therefore has more value than a single image recognition.

Colbert said, "This is the essence of your serious attitude towards CAC." "If someone is smart enough to enter these chips, they can extract all the personal data." It was.

The Collins team said in the past that local law enforcement agencies reported that they found some military ID cards in their daily work. But I do not know why everyone has such an identity card.

For many years, the Air Force authorities changed how they complete their CAC card business. In 2008, the appearance of the CAC card was revised. Furthermore, at Tinker, the verifier can not create a new CAC. Cardholders must be identified by other systems as basic personnel

"Do not be afraid," she said. "Do not put the ID card in your pocket, please do not put in the car, please keep it together always"

CAC is a management project. As of 2008, the Department of Defense has issued more than 17 million smart cards. This number includes reissuing to respond to changes in name, level, or status and to replace lost or stolen cards. As of the same day, about 3.5 million unfinished or active CAC has been circulated. The Department of Defense has deployed its delivery infrastructure to more than 1,000 sites in more than 25 countries and has introduced over 1 million readers and related middleware. CAC is a US Department of Defense and US Coast Guard US forces (usually reserve and National Guard), Coast Guard support personnel, Pentagon civilians, USCG civilians, non-Defense Department / other civil servants and the National Guard I was delivered to. Contractors of Department of Defense and USCG that require access to national employees, Department of Defense or USCG facilities or Department of Defense computer network system

Question 7: I was told that ordinary citizens of retired Defense Department can obtain CAC as an identity card. truly? What is policy guidance? A: The civilians of the retired Department of Defense Ministry of Defense will be covered by the Department of Defense citizen retirement ID card which is not CAC. This trustworthy credential for citizen retirees can be used by installation commander in the installation of the defense base. Although the Department of Defense policy is to issue ID cards to retirees, the installation commander reserves the right to refuse access to the basic installation. To find the nearest RAPIDS site, please use the RAPIDS site locator at http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/. These cards are valid for 8 years. resource