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Introducing the 3 newest members of the NSTIC pilots family!

The NSTIC pilots family is growing today with the announcement of three new pilot projects receiving NIST grants! These projects will join the ranks of the 15 active NSTIC pilots and alumni that know

Save the Date: NSTIC identity proofing, authentication, and attributes workshop - January 2016

We’re thrilled to announce that on January 12-13, 2016, the NSTIC National Program Office, with our colleagues here in NIST’s Information Technology Lab, will hold a technical workshop called

A major NSTIC milestone: IDEFv1 set for October 20th public release

When the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) plenary convened last week in Tampa, Florida, attendees meant business. By Friday afternoon, committees had finalized the baseline requirements and

Breaking news: the IDEFv1 is now available to the public!

In the NSTIC, the president called for an “overarching set of interoperability standards, risk models, privacy and liability policies, requirements, and accountability mechanisms that structure the

Launching iGov: secure and privacy-enhancing identity authentication and authorization profiles developed on an international scale

International collaboration among the public and private sectors is now expanding with the announcement of a new OpenID Foundation (OIDF) working group called the International Government Assurance