National Science and Technology Council

Identity Management Task Force Report 2008 (Color) National Science and Technology Council

The Task Force was chartered to study federal IdM over a six-month period, with a broad range of representation from different government missions, and was given three primary tasks: - Provide an assessment of the current state of IdM in the U. S. government;- Develop a vision for how IdM should operate in the future;- Develop first-step recommendations on how to advance toward this vision. The Task Force undertook two overlapping approaches to determine the current state of IdM in the U. S. government, a detailed assessment of publicly available Privacy Impact Assessments and an OMB-issued survey to the Federal Chief Information Officers' Council. The combined analysis showed that there are more than 3,000 systems within the U. S. government that utilize Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and the vast majority of these were designed and aremanaged independently from one another. These facts contribute to several issues with the current state: