Security concerns, legacy platforms, and siloed agency operations are blunting government aspirations to centralize disparate federal identification mechanisms into a single system, according to officials from a government watchdog and the Justice Department.
There are many forms of ID across the federal government managed individually by agencies and reliant on different platforms and processes, from social security numbers to veteran status to employee verification.
Bringing them together into a single stream has been a longtime, if ambitious, goal of government officials—but the challenges are daunting, said Jennifer Franks, director of the Government Accountability Office Information Technology and Cybersecurity Team, at …
