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Federal Cloud Credential Exchange. In November 2012, the United States Postal Service joined an intergovernmental pilot project to develop a Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX) on behalf of the federal government. The pilot project is led by the White House Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer and supports the implementation of the President’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). In addition to the Postal Service, the FCCX pilot project is supported by the General Services Administration (GSA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Office of Management & Budget (OMB).
The Postal Service is implementing a pilot software solution to enable the public to use commercially issued digital credentials to access government services online with greater security, privacy and efficiency. Piloting a solution with select agencies will begin in early 2014.
The FCCX pilot project’s goal is to create an online credential exchange service that will ease the burden of citizens who currently manage multiple credentials (e.g., user names and passwords) for government agency applications, improve overall digital credentialing security and privacy and reduce the total cost across government platforms associated with digital credentialing.
FCCX will deliver a secure digital credential exchange platform that will promote greater confidence, privacy, choice and convenience for American consumers using government websites.
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