Production of Enhanced Tribal Cards

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Production ofEnhanced Tribal Cards
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Topics

• EPC Global
• Who are they
• Obtaining Company Prefix
• Certified Vendor List
• Vendors
• What to look for
• Questions to Ask
• Standards for ETCs
• Quality of issued EDLs

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EPCglobal

• Leading the development of industry-driven
  standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC)
  to support the use of Radio Frequency
  Identification (RFID)
• Subscriber-driven organization comprised of
  industry leaders and organizations focused on
  creating global standards
• www.epcglobalinc.org

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EPCglobal Standards
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EPCglobal Identity - Company Prefix
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EPCglobal IdentityCertified Vendors

• Provides a neutral and authoritative source for
  testing EPC/RFID hardware products
• Gen 2 Tag Vendors
• Alien Technology
• Impinj, Inc
• Intermec Technologies Corp (Readers deployed by
  CBP)
• NXP
• Shanghai Quanray
• Toppan Printing Co.
• Tested by CBP

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Card Stock Vendors

• There is no certification process for Card Stock
  Providers.
• Todate, the following vendors are providing card
  stock for EDLs
• Digimarc
• www.Digimarc.com 
• De La Rue
• www.delarue.com
• Preferred Card Stock
• Polycarbonate
• PVC

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Vendors

• What to look for
• Understanding of RFID Technology
• Understanding of ICAO standards (MRZ)
• Understanding of XML schemas
• Printing of Card Stock
• Questions to Ask
• Are you an End-to-End Solution Provider?
• What type of Card Issuance Processes do you
  provide?
• Distributed Architecture
• Centralized Architecture
• How is Data/Card Stock secured?
• Are Background Investigations conducted on
  employees?

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Standards for ETCs

• Issuing Country - 3 Character Code
• USA or CAN
• Nationality of Holder 3 character Code
• USA or CAN
• Issuing State/Province 2 Character Code
• 50 States
• 13 Canadian Provinces
• The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) currently
  maintains a three character numeric or
  alphanumeric code Titled Tribe Codes Land Area
  Codes.

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Standards for ETCs
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Quality of issued EDLs

• RFID Technology
• Coating on Card Stock
• Magnetic Strip in relationship to RFID Antenna
• MRZ
• Positioning on the back of the card
• Font type of OCR-B, Size 1
• Names that exceed 27 characters (Surname, first,
  middle)

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Questions? Paul Mangus703-440-3126
Paul.Mangus_at_associates.dhs.gov Kelly
Kramer703-440-3043Kelly.Kramer_at_associates.dhs.go
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• Our Mission
• We are the guardians of our Nations borders.
• We are Americas frontline.
• We safeguard the American homeland at and beyond
  our borders.
• We protect the American public against
  terrorists and the instruments of terror.
• We steadfastly enforce the laws of the United
  States while fostering our nations economic
  security through lawful international trade and
  travel.
• We serve the American public with vigilance,
  integrity and professionalism.