Typical Access Card (CAC) Facts

CAC Enrollment Process for New Employees
CAC enrollment for new workers is automatic soon after entrance on duty (EOD) has occurred and the Workforce Management Office (WFMO) has submitted the needed paperwork to the Office of Safety (OSY) Servicing Safety Office (SSO). If you are a new employee, contact the NOAA Silver Spring RAPIDS Station at 301-713-0954 ext. 131 to make sure you have an established record in the CAC database prior to going to a RAPIDS station for CAC issuance. If you are informed that you do not have a record in the CAC database, get in touch with your servicing Workforce Management Workplace Representative for further help. When you are informed you are CAC eligible, stick to Measures 1 -three beneath beneath "CAC Renewal Procedure for Employees" to uncover out where to go to get your CAC, how to make an appointment (if an appointment is needed) and what to bring with you to the RAPIDS station.

CAC Enrollment Method for Contractors
Contractors are sponsored for a CAC by their designated Line/Staff Office Trusted Agent (TA). If you do not know who your TA is, make contact with your Line/Employees Office point of contact (POC) listed at the bottom of this web page. Click right here for NOAA's CAC issuance policy and procedures for contractors/associates.http://enterprise-email.org/akodko-webmail-freezes-when-it-loads/

Electronic Signature CD591 kind for Trusted Agents
CAC Renewal Procedure for Personnel
When will have to I renew my Popular Access Card (CAC)?
The expiration date for your Widespread Access Card (CAC) is situated in the prime proper corner of your CAC. You may commence the renewal course of action indicated under, inside 30 days from expiration of the CAC.

What is the method for renewing my CAC?
Step 1: Coordinate with RAPIDS station to establish if an appointment is essential
For CAC renewals, the original CAC should be replaced by possessing a new CAC issued and the original CAC deactivated. To renew your CAC, coordinate (within 30 days of CAC expiration) with the neighborhood RAPIDS station to come across out the RAPIDS Station's operating hours (if it really is a stroll-in facility) and to make an appointment (if required).

Step two: Make an appointment (if an appointment is essential)
CAC renewal applicants who will go to NOAA operated RAPIDS places in Silver Spring, MD, Boulder, Colorado and Seattle, Washington ought to schedule an appointment on the web to renew their CAC at https://rapids-appointments.dmdc.osd.mil/.

CAC renewal applicants that are not situated close to NOAA operated RAPIDS stations should really initial contact the RAPIDS station they want to take a look at for CAC renewal to identify if they can renew on a walk-in basis or if an appointment is necessary. For far more facts on RAPIDS site locations, please check out The Rapids Internet site Locator website.

Step 3: Make confident to bring the following with you to the RAPIDS stations
Two Forms of ID. One particular will have to be a Federal/State or Nearby Government issued ID with a photo (e.g., driver's license, passport). The other may perhaps be an unexpired CAC, birth certificate, social safety card or other documents listed on the I-9 Kind.
Bring your present CAC that is set to expire.
Further specifications for the duration of CAC issuance at the RAPIDS Station involve:

Matching the fingerprint scan stored in DEERS.
Deciding on a six to eight digit quantity to be employed as a PIN. You could use the identical pin number that was selected previously.
Electronically sign the DD Type 2842, DOD PKI Certificate of Acceptance and Acknowledgement of Responsibilities.
Exactly where are the locations I can go to renew my CAC?
CACs are issued by way of Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) badging web sites. Employees are anticipated to go to the nearest RAPIDS site—either nearest to their duty station, location of residence, or short-term duty station—to lessen expense and time away from their duty station. Employees will be supplied affordable time (administrative leave) for commute to the RAPIDS web page and re- issuance of the CAC.

NOAA Operated RAPIDS Stations: Current CAC holders that obtained their CACs from NOAA operated RAPIDS internet sites positioned in Silver Spring, Maryland Seattle, Washington and Boulder, Colorado ought to return to those internet sites for CAC renewals.http://ciog6.army.mil/demoblog2/tabid/110/tagid/1/Enterprise-Email.aspx

DOD Operated RAPIDS Stations: Current CAC holders that are not located close to NOAA operated RAPIDS stations can also get their CACs from one of extra than 1,500 DOD operated RAPIDS stations worldwide. For extra info on RAPIDS web page locations, please check out: http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/owa/household.

NOAA Operated Mobile Station: The mobile RAPIDS station will be dispatched to NOAA places for renewal as follows:

Location is additional than 51 miles from the nearest RAPIDS web-site and has 15 or far more workers/contractors
Place has additional than 50 staff/contractors and/or time will be saved in lieu of sending personnel/contractors to RAPIDS station there will be a travel price linked (examples of areas include things like Suitland and Camp Springs, MD Anchorage, Alaska Honolulu, HI and Kansas City, MO).
When will I commence applying my CAC to access NOAA computer systems and facilities?

Logical (laptop or computer) access utilizing the HSPD-12 compliant Common Access Card (CAC) CAC will come to be mandatory for all staff and CAC eligible contractors December 31, 2012.  Facility access applying the CAC nevertheless, will happen in a phased strategy at moderate level NOAA facilities (Facility Safety Levels three and four) as funding becomes offered to upgrade and replace non-HSPD-12 compliant PACS.

NOAA CAC holders at moderate level facilities will commence employing their CACs for facility access in a phased method primarily based on funding availability to comprehensive the necessary PACS upgrades.  Facility specific implementation plans will be coordinated by means of Line and Employees Offices as the date for implementation approaches.  CAC holders must thus, anticipate getting added info by way of email and/or local broadcast messages from the Workplace of Security (coordinated by means of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer) in the future, regarding distinct implementation dates and the CAC enrollment procedure that will be necessary to begin employing the CAC for facility access. 

I have forgotten my PIN or my PIN has been locked.  Where do I go to have my PIN reset?

NOAA CAC holders have 2 options to reset their CAC PIN: at DoD DEERS/RAPIDS stations (situated at numerous NOAA web sites and DoD web sites/bases worldwide) or NOAA CPR Workstations (CPR-WS).  Go to the following link for the nearest RAPIDS station  www.dmdc.osd.mil/rsl/

NOAA is at present in the procedure of setting up and testing CPR-WS for the remainder of FY12 and will not operate in full production mode until FY13 for the web sites that have been requested, but there will be a limited quantity of offices have a CPR-WS.  These stations will be posted on the website as they are made readily available. For more details with regards to CPR get in touch with Ms. LaToya Gross (NOAA CPR Project Manager) at Latoya.Gross@noaa.gov or by means of phone at 301.713.9808 ext. 158.

My CAC does not function on my personal computer. Who do I get in touch with?

CAC holders that are obtaining concerns connected to their CAC not working (other than forgotten/locked PINs) should really first perform the following diagnostic measures to identify regardless of whether the CAC is non-functioning or is a NOAA connected concern.  If your CAC does not operate on your pc, do the following initially:  

Click on the “ActivClient Agent” (icon is a card reader with a card inserted and is found on the ideal hand side of your taskbar)
Select “Open”
Double-Click on “My Certificates”
ActivClient should show that you have three certificates (ID Certificate, Signature Certificate and Encryption Certificate).  If so, your CAC, card reader, ActivClient and Certificates are all functioning effectively and you must speak to your neighborhood NOAA IT Assistance Desk for additional help.
If you have been unable to see all 3 certificates (following measures 1-four above), you should return to a DOD or NOAA operated RAPIDS site to decide if the CAC is non-functioning.  If the RAPIDS station determines that the CAC is non-functioning, then a CAC will want to be reissued (please note that some web-sites concern CACs by appointment only).

CAC Renewal Course of action for Non-Personnel
What is the approach for renewing my CAC?
You need to get in touch with the Trusted Agent who sponsored you for the CAC inside 60 days of the CAC expiration date for data concerning the method for renewing your CAC. The expiration date for your Common Access Card (CAC) is positioned in the major proper corner of your CAC.

Your Trusted Agent will give you with information and facts regarding where to go to get your CAC renewed, how to make an appointment (if vital), and what you want to bring with you.

What if I experience a difficulty with renewing my CAC at a RAPIDS station?
In the unlikely occasion you experience a dilemma at the RAPIDS station renewing your CAC, send an e mail to the NOAA HSPD-12 Project Group at CACandHSPD12.Help and incorporate in the e-mail your name, point of make contact with and telephone quantity for the RAPIDS station you visited and the challenge as communicated by the RAPIDS operator.

Report a Lost or Stolen CAC
Employees/Contractors who loose their CACs should really submit a memorandum to their supervisor or sponsor stating the situations. If the CAC is stolen, then employee should really also submit a copy of a police report.
Supervisor/Sponsor will submit the memorandum to their Regional Safety Office for processing.
Regional Security Workplace will sign memorandum and return to the Supervisor/Sponsor. Regional Safety Office will retain a copy of memorandum.
Supervisor/Sponsor will give employee/contractor memorandum to present to RAPIDS station.
Employee/Contractor will provide memorandum and two types of ID to RAPIDS station. If employee/contractor does not have two forms of ID, they have to confirm a fingerprint previously stored in DEERS.
Queries concerning this policy? Email us at CACandHSPD12.Assist.
NOAA Memorandum for Lost/Stolen CAC
MEMORANDUM FOR: Internet site Safety Manager, Insert Name of Real-time Automated Personnel Identification Method (RAPIDS) ID Card Issuance Facility.

FROM: Insert Name of Security Officer, Insert Name of Regional Safety Workplace

FROM: Insert Name of Supervisor/Sponsor/COR, Title

Topic: Report of Lost or Stolen (pick a single) Frequent Access Card (CAC)

1. Insert name, reported his/her Widespread Access Card (CAC) was lost or stolen (pick one) in the vicinity of insert place, on or about insert date.

two. He/she (select 1) has been directed to return the CAC, if located, to his/her (pick 1) Regional Safety Workplace or the nearest RAPIDS facility.

3. He/she (choose one particular) has been advised of their duty to keep handle of Government Property in their possession and the seriousness of achievable compromise of physical and/or logical access safety.

four. If any additional data is needed, please make contact with me by email at Insert e mail address or Insert make contact with quantity