HSPD 12 requires a smart card-enabled credential that will grant federal employees and contractors access to all federal facilities and networks. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services had to rethink their own background screening processes and fine-tune non-equipment-related issues in order to prepare the departments 4,400 buildings and more than 68,000 employees for the new standards. The agency has also developed a technological solution to the common platform that allows for a temporary, but compliant solution.”]