The RAPTOR Identification and Credentialing System is a tool allowing for the compartmented storage and secure retrieval of demographic, licensure, training, and privileging data, using a system of advanced registration, authentication, and verification. The system allows the individual user, also referred to as a credentialing candidate, to enroll via a secure web link. The sponsored credentialing candidate enters personal and professional demographic, contact, and medical information, identified as required by the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) and consistent with The Advance Response Concepts RAPTOR operating rules and trust model.

Subsequent verification of the candidates identity and professional qualifications is completed at a site or sites determined by the AHJ. This process results in the issuance of a “smart card” produced by Advance Response Concepts or by the AHJ locally under license. A smart card is a type of plastic card embedded with a computer chip that stores and transacts data between users. This data is associated with either value or information or both and is stored and processed within the card’s dual microprocessor chips. The card data is transacted via a reader that is part of a trusted computing system.

In 2006, RAPTOR became the first accountability and first responder identification and credentialing program to sit on a fully interoperable FIPS 201 PIV I and II platform that also supports the Real ID Act. For credential that stands up both to PIV II and Real ID RAPTOR sits on a ID-One Gov PIVisbased on Oberthur Technologies' open platforms featuring on-board applications dedicated to identity and e-government services.

ID-One Gov PIV smart cards are based on the latest evolution of Cosmo cards, Oberthur Technologies’ platform offer. Implementing Java Card™ and Global Platform industry standards, Cosmo cards offer from 16 to 128KB of EEPROM, with dual interface chip allowing the card to be used in contactless mode. All Oberthur Technologies' smart card products provided to the government market are FIPS 140-2 certified and FIPS 201 compliant

Other RAPTOR programs use Hybrid Smartcards with a 64Kbyte Emosyn Theseus® Platinum TP62 contact chip with a Flash COS operating system and a 4K MIFARE ISO 14443 a contactless chip for programs that will focus strictly on first responder and accountability programs. We also support Maltose, Athena, and MtCOS smart card platforms.

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