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Education Security Tracking and Reporting System (EDSTAR)

Investment ID: 018-000000099

Overview

Program Title
Education Security Tracking and Reporting System (EDSTAR)
Description
EDSTAR is a platform (system) that supports HSPD-12 requirements by providing a Government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification issued by the Federal Government to its employees and contractors to enhance the assurance of quality and security of identification used to gain access to Department of Education secure facilities.
Type of Program
Non-major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Other

Investment Detail

The investment support OCIO infrastructure by leveraging the digital certificates of logical access to the network. It also enable encryption and decryption on the Department's email and sensitive documents and protects the integrity of sensitive Departmental information. In the system allow background investigations to be processed electronically and reduce the amount of paper filing by over 95%. It also reduces the probability of PII loss or disclosure due to a paper based process. It allows timely adjudication and reporting to OPM of over 10,000 investigations.

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