The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded XTec Inc. a task order to supply several components in support of logical access control as part of HSPD-12 compliance. The components XTec will supply are an HSPD-12 compatible smartcard Minidriver, the AuthentX online certificate status protocol solution, and a PKI license. The task order is called the Combined Infrastructure Support contract for Enterprise Identity Management and Logical Access Control. The enterprise license for PKI is being provided through XTec’s partner, Entrust, and it entails a digital signature as well as certificates for PIV authentication, key encryption and card authentication for each DHS identity.