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[jailbird] 15/5/2007 09:29

The NMS is small....it looks like a holder is selling small lots of their holding....i will be buying a few(not much) shortly as i'm expecting some funds soon.

[wjccghcc] 15/5/2007 08:34

Aphrodites, I don't think Parris or Walker are that concerned with day to day share price movements - they're too busy. Also, any takeover couldn't happen without their approval. They have an idea of what the company is worth and wouldn't sell below that irrespective of the market price prior to the transaction.

[wjccghcc] 14/5/2007 22:12

Consolidation in the security sector continues - Verizon buying Cybertrust, mainly to boost their identity management side. Both use MyID for their HSPD-12 offerings.

Despite the current shareprice drift on low volume here, it's doubtful IGP will still be independent in 12 months time at this rate.



"Verizon Business will acquire Cybertrust Inc., adding its global information security services to Verizon's offerings for agencies and businesses.

The deal is expected to close in 60 to 90 days, Verizon said. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cybertrust's specializes in making critical data secure and protecting identifies. The acquisition will boost Verizon's existing security offerings and strengthen the communications provider's appeal to potential customers concerned about protection of their information, Verizon said.

Cybertrust's Identity Management unit is an important part of the appeal to agencies, Verizon said. It allows customers to manage user identities across a range of systems and applications.

Michael Hardy is an associate editor for Washington Technology, an 1105 Government Information Group publication."

[wjccghcc] 14/5/2007 15:22

Agree with Garth. The problem with National ID cards is the privacy issue - something the government have not properly dealt with. A biometric card prooving entitlement to benefits, healthcare etc. is far more likely and much easier to sell to the public, particularly as almost every other European country will soon have one.

Regarding IGP, I don't think anyone was expecting any ID card revenue - the government hadn't even started procurement and the Tories have always said they'll cancel it. I know IGP themselves aren't exactly holding their breath - they did the demonstrator with Oberthur, linked up with several other partners and then put it on the backburner until the government sorted itself out.

[garth] 14/5/2007 15:11

Lew,

There will be local government cards that you will use to access services such as concessionary bus travel, library, sports facilities etc. These will be 'entitlement cards' similar to those operating already in Scotland, and to a lesser extent, in Wales. They will be able to carry biometric information. We are already part way there, IMO. Transport first, other services to follow. As early as 12 months away.

DYOR.

G.

[lew stules] 14/5/2007 14:38

I don't think there will be any national ID cards.

Gordon Brown is likely to bin the idea IMHO.

[igoe104] 14/5/2007 14:21

I think its the case of being patient with this one.
in my eyes its just a matter of time before we are rewarded.

ps justed got some star energy (star) another winner in my eyes.

[jailbird] 14/5/2007 07:58

yes i stand corrected...still these projects are large scale and it looks like
delays are gonna be inevitable..but the rewards are waiting for IGP can be clearly seen.

[wjccghcc] 14/5/2007 07:55

The Oct 1st deadline was for scanning cargo, not TWIC. The original TWIC deadline was to start issuing cards by July 1st but that boat sailed long ago when they revamped the technology requirements. Current estimate is around Novemeber-time I think.

[jailbird] 14/5/2007 03:07

TWIC may not happen until next year at this rate...OCT 1st deadline is looking difficult to meet.

[igoe104] 13/5/2007 12:46

LATEST NEWS ON THE TWIC PROJECT.

[jailbird] 11/5/2007 07:51

nice info guys...this company's prospects just get more exciting all the time.

[igoe104] 10/5/2007 19:04

HERE,S MORE INFO, ON THE FRAC PROJECT.

[igoe104] 10/5/2007 18:56

Great work wjcc, didn,t realise in would involve numbers of 40 million.
heres the latest on that.

[wjccghcc] 10/5/2007 18:06

On top of HSPD-12 and TWIC, noone's really talked about the First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC). This is a nationwide credental for emergency responders. I'm not holding my breath for Real ID but FRAC is already underway and IMHO much more interesting for IGP in the short to mid-term. There are an estimated 40 million first responders nationwide which dwarfs the 3-5mm HSPD12 and 1mm+ TWIC projects. FRAC cards will be issued on a state basis but need to comply with federal standards.

The DHS FRAC demonstration, Winter Fox, used General Dynamics Lockheed Martin/RSA Card Manager, while Pennsylvania have already said they'll be using Verisign as their preferred provider, both of which are based on MyID.

From Washington tech:

"Next time there is a major emergency in Arlington County, Va., firefighters, police and emergency medical workers will be flashing a new, high-tech identity card to quickly verify their identity and gain access to the disaster site.

The county is working with the state of Virginia and the Homeland Security Department and announced March 13 that it is the first county in the nation to issue the First Responder Authentication Credential, a biometric smart card modeled after the federal standard for personal-identification cards. About 1,400 of the cards have been issued and distributed in Arlington to date.

The card is being used initially just for physical access. "When the first responders arrive at an incident scene, there will be a long line for obtaining entry, and a short line. We hope this will put them in the short line," said Michael McAllister, state security director at the Virginia Department of Transportation.

The card will establish identity of the first responders at the incident scene and confirm their qualifications and expertise, so they can be quickly dispatched to the appropriate task.

DHS has been piloting the ID cards for thousands of first responders in the National Capital Region, which is composed of Washington and its suburbs in Virginia and Maryland, including Arlington County. The program was tested in the Winter Fox disaster exercise in 2006.

Tom Lockwood, formerly the department's coordinator of National-Capital Region initiatives, was named senior adviser for credentialing interoperability at the department's Screening Coordination Office April 4.

DHS and the capital region jurisdictions want interoperability among the ID cards so that - in a major emergency - a volunteer firefighter from Virginia or Maryland can be admitted to a disaster site in the District of Columbia, and vice versa. But government and industry executives involved in the project say there have been concerns about how to establish, pay for and operate the federated identity management that would be needed to maintain the credentials up-to-date and provide the cross-matching.

"These are governance issues," said Greg Gardner, vice president of government and homeland security solutions at Oracle Corp. For example, the federated system would have to quickly recognize when a first responder anywhere in the region left the service or moved out of the region. That type of information is maintained separately by each county and city and not typically shared.

Nonetheless, many companies see great opportunities nationwide in the first-responder credentialing market.

"There's about 40 million emergency responders nationwide," said Scott Price, vice president of homeland security and civilian solutions at General Dynamics Corp. "Credentialing is in the early stages now, but the first responders are really seeing the benefits of it."

[pork belly] 10/5/2007 16:55

May 10, 2007

ID card scheme costs rise by £400m

[jailbird] 10/5/2007 13:48

yep,

looking very tempting again...but i am holding off from buying anything at the moment..

[igoe104] 10/5/2007 13:33

Last i heard jailbird, it was delayed until, the end 2009. but they is still lots of other projects over the next couple of years, to kill time before the big one.

[jailbird] 10/5/2007 08:15

looks like the REAL ID is still a while away

[igoe104] 09/5/2007 20:23

LATEST ON THE TWIC PROJECT.

[igoe104] 04/5/2007 08:58

JUST NOTICED this on the company web-site.

[pork belly] 03/5/2007 21:50

Government told to publish Gateway reviews on ID cards
by Bill Goodwin
Thursday 3 May 2007

The government has been ordered to disclose confidential reports into the viability of its £5.8bn ID card programme.

In a precedent-setting case, the Information Tribunal has dismissed an appeal by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), ordering it to publish its Gateway reviews of the programme.


The tribunal ruled, in a 40-page decision published today, that the public interest in disclosing the reports - which assess the business case for ID cards - outweighed the public interest in keeping them secret.

The case will put pressure on the government to routinely make Gateway reviews into government IT projects available to the public.

"Disclosure is likely to enhance public debate of issues such as the programme's feasibility and how it is managed," the information commissioner Richard Thomas said today in response to the decision.

The Office of Government Commerce argued during a four-day hearing that disclosure would fundamentally undermine the Gateway review process.

It claimed that civil servants would be inhibited from offering frank and candid views on the progress of IT projects if their views might become public.

Peter Gershon, the former civil servant responsible for introducing Gateway reviews of government IT projects, told the tribunal that any publication of adverse comments in reports would provoke a backlash from the government department under scrutiny.
"They will say 'we will go public and make it clear we don't agree with the report,'" he said.

"The whole department will muster its defences and resources, so it becomes public that we don't agree with it."

Gateway reviews offered a safe space for government officials to speak candidly and unguardedly, said Gershon. The government could either be open or have an effective scrutiny process – but not both, he said.

The tribunal found, however, that the "safe space" the OGC argued was necessary to protect the early stages of policy formulation could not be justified at a time when the Identity Cards Bill was being openly debated in parliament.

The tribunal criticised the OGC for developing a Gateway review system that operates on the apparent assumption that there was little or no risk that the results would be made public.

This was at the very least unprofessional, said the tribunal, and was at variance with the aim of the Gateway reviews to encourage and support more professionalism in the way projects were undertaken.

The "grave consequences" the OGC predicted would flow from disclosure were overstated, it concluded.

[wjccghcc] 03/5/2007 08:33

More of a slight positive actually with the bigger agencies likely to break away from the GSA to do their own thing. First time round, it was Bearingpoint and Gemalto/Bell who were protested. This time it's EDS and Actividentity.

The two other big HSPD-12 Shared Service Provider contracts are the DoI National Business Center (IBM) and the TWIC (Lockheed) both of which use IGP so whatever the GSA outcome, it's unlikely IGP would be involved.

[jailbird] 03/5/2007 01:33

along as no negative impact on IGP..they can protest all they like.