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2005-10-01

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NASA is relying on an assortment of technologies to establish a uniform system to create, modify and delete accounts.

NASA is relying on an identity management platform from Sun Microsystems, working with other technologies, to establish a uniform process for creating, modifying and deleting user directory entries and accounts.

APPLICATION	PRODUCT	SUPPLIER
Cyber-identity management	Sun Java System Directory Server	Sun Microsystems
Account management and synchronization	Sun Java System Identity Manager	Sun Microsystems
X.500 directory server	Global Directory Server	BT Syntegra
Identity management system database	SQL Server cluster (database to correlate online identities with physical security data)	Microsoft
Directory server manager hardware	Sun Fire V240 and V480 servers and identity	Sun Microsystems
Network operating system directory	Active Directory on Windows Server 2003	Microsoft
Web portal infrastructure	Vignette 4.5, BEA WebLogic, Oracle 9i, Red HatLinux, HP DL380 servers	Vignette, BEA Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard
Development tool for Java and XML coding	Eclipse	Eclipse Foundation (open-source development organization)
Software version control	CVS version control system	Open source
Physical security authentication and badge issuance	OnGuard	Lenel
Smart card	ActivCard cards and readers	ActivCard

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