Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C., the Department of Defense (DoD) began searching for a real world CAC access control solution that integrated biometrics for highly secure access. No CAC access and biometric access system then existed.

Because of our experience with smart cards and security applications, BridgePoint was awarded a contract by the DoD to develop the first system that utilized CAC Readers integrated with a fingerprint biometric and PIN application. The system had to be simple and robust, and it had to be completed within a six-month schedule.

We succeeded by building on our ten years of experience in engineering and manufacturing more smart card-based applications than any firm in the United States. In the past three years we have grown to be a leading supplier of CAC Readers and CAC Access Systems to the DoD. Today, dozens of DoD installations utilize our solutions to control over 1,000 doors.

Federal Government agencies that use BridgePoint products include the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the General Services Administration (GSA). Integrated with fingerprint biometrics, our PIV-based Wiegand card and biometric readers are a critical component in controlling access for up to 10,000 Federal employees at the Jacob K. Javits office building in New Your City.

In the property management industry BridgePoint intelligent readers power over 10,000 vending machines, and over 1,000 doors are controlled by BridgePoint networked and single door solutions

BridgePoint products meet FIPS-201 standards and include patented reprogrammable architecture that enables software upgrades in the field, an essential feature in today's technology driven world. "Mission critical" design is our hallmark. We build products that perform under the most severe conditions, and we back them with superior factory support and customer service.