A-130 finally gives identity management a much needed policy boost

Of all the changes Circular A-130 brought forth, maybe the most significant is catching federal policy up with reality.

The fact the Office of Management and Budget hadn’t done a full update of A-130 in 16 years gave some agencies the ability to slow-roll unfunded mandates, because they said those requirements weren’t in the overarching policy document.

Identity management is a great of example of where this happened.

Judy Spencer, the policy management authority chairwoman of the Certipath bridge and a former General Services Administration official who oversaw many of the identity management initiatives across government, said the A-130 update creates that one place for leaders to point to and move government and industry toward a more complete use of identity management. CertiPath is a trusted authority for interoperable identities for collaboration in the aerospace and defense industry.

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