Army Drafts Schlumberger

S chlumbergerSema recently announced that Logicon, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp. and a provider of advanced information-technology solutions, engineering and business services for government and commercial clients, has acquired nearly 60,000 of its advanced Reflex smart card readers for the U.S. Army's implementation of the Department of Defense (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC) program.

This new order represents the largest single deployment of smart card readers in the U.S. to date and complements the company's previous announcement that EDS purchased 600,000 of its Java-based Cyberflex Access smart cards for the overall DoD CAC program.

The Army will utilize the Reflex 72 USB and Reflex 20 PCMCIA readers, which connect with desktop and portable PCs, to authenticate smart cards used for secure network access, as part of its implementation of the DoD CAC program. The DoD CAC program is using highly secure, multiple-application smart cards, such as the SchlumbergerSema Cyberflex Access card, for physical identification, building access and network access in a multi- tiered program that is being rolled out throughout the DoD over the next few years.