Top 10 stories of 2016

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Top 10 stories of 2016

From a massive January snowstorm to a pay raise for all federal employees, we look back at the stories that meant the most to our readers in 2016.

Daisy Thornton@dthorntonWFED

December 30, 2016 4:51 am

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7. Pentagon considers ending use of common access cards

DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said June 14 that he plans to phase out the secure identity card over the next two years. Halvorsen said he’d like to move to a behavior-based approach for network authentication.

DoD began issuing CAC cards in 2001, and over the last 15 years the smart identity cards have become the de facto, governmentwide standard for network and system security access control, with more than 2.8 million CAC cards issued last year to uniformed service members, civilian employees and contractors.

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Daisy Thornton

Daisy Thornton is Federal News Network’s digital managing editor. In addition to her editing responsibilities, she covers federal management, workforce and technology issues. She is also the commentary editor; email her your letters to the editor and pitches for contributed bylines.

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