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The Common Access Card, also commonly referred to as the CAC or CAC card, is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

It is the standard identification for Active Duty United States Defense personnel, to include the Selected Reserve and National Guard, United States Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees, United States Coast Guard (USCG) civilian employees and eligible DoD and USCG contractor personnel.

It is also the principal card used to enable physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and it provides access to defense computer networks and systems.

It also serves as an identification card under the Geneva Conventions (esp.

the Third Geneva Convention).

In combination with a personal identification number, a CAC satisfies the requirement for two-factor authentication: something the user knows combined with something the user has.

The CAC also satisfies the requirements for digital signature and data encryption technologies: authentication, integrity and non-repudiation.

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

The Department is the largest employer in the world, with nearly 1.3 million active duty servicemen and women as of 2016.

Adding to its employees are over 801,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists from the four services, and over 740,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees.

It is headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.

Information technology (IT) is the application of computers to store, study, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

IT is considered a subset of information and communications technology (ICT).

In 2012, Zuppo proposed an ICT hierarchy where each hierarchy level "contain[s] some degree of commonality in that they are related to technologies that facilitate the transfer of information and various types of electronically mediated communications.".