A Pentagon-hosted exercise to be held next week to test smart card interoperability among local, state and federal emergency responders in the Washington, D.C. metro area will be the first to field test the First Responders Access Card (FRAC) The FRAC is a smart card that is expected to meet the specifications of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card within Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. The intent of the cards is to enable better emergency communications between agencies in disparate geographical regions.”]
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