With the USAccess Program, the GSA Managed Services Office (MSO) offers participating agencies a managed, shared service that simplifies the process of procuring and maintaining PIV compliant credentials.
The USAccess Program is a managed service that provides agencies with all the key components necessary to manage the full lifecycle of a PIV credential. The service provides a single system to sponsor, enroll, issue and maintain a common identity credential for each applicant, and includes built-in workflow processes at every stage of the credentialing process.
With USAccess, participating agencies receive the following components:
- Web-based portals for sponsoring, enrolling, and adjudicating Applicants, as well as activating credentials and conducting post-issuance credential updates.
- Web-based portals where authorized personnel can generate reports from the USAccess system as well as grant access to key agency personnel who have credentialing responsibilities.
- A complete managed system infrastructure that provides a secure, standards-based enterprise identity management capability with various PIV related components, implemented with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Light Activation service, accessible using the Light Activation Kit and available for credential holders to more easily activate and update their credentials.
- Light Credentialing Solution is accessible using a kit containing all the software and hardware peripherals needed to enroll Applicants, and activate and update their credentials.
Policy Compliant Secure System
A foundational component of the USAccess program is trust. Whether you are a system user or a recipient of a USAccess PIV Credential, you have entrusted the GSA Managed Service Office (MSO) to deliver a secure system that applies and achieves the federally required security controls. The USAccess program has performed the applicable security assessments, reliably adheres to the standards and implementation directives, and properly operates under the applicable National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidelines and standards.