U.S. officials face a looming deadline to deploy a uniform identification badge designed to verify the ID of federal employees, no matter which agency issued it. The Personal Identity Verification project is expected to eventually cover cards issued to 12 million employees and contractors. Created by Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 in 2004, groundwork on the PIV card is entering its final stages as scores of agencies and vendors try to meet an Oct. 27 deadline President George W. Bush has set to begin issuing the cards.
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