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White House makes Login.gov mandate final with two-year governmentwide rollout

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The White House has finalized its plan to make Login.gov the universal sign-on for most public-facing federal services, converting a draft policy disclosed last week into a governmentwide mandate with firm deployment deadlines and new requirements governing competing identity providers. Monday the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum M-26-18 , Scaling Use of Login.gov to Deliver a Universal Sign-on for Public Services, requiring agencies to deploy Login.gov across covered federal websites over the next two years. A separate White House fact sheet says the policy puts the government on a path toward “a universal sign-on across services.” The OMB’s draft that was circulated last week required agencies to make Login.gov available for most public-facing services requiring authentication. The final policy largely preserves that approach but provides considerably more detail about how and when agencies must carry it out. Agencies now have one year to deploy Login.gov on co

First report: White House mandates agencies use Login.gov for public-facing websites — nextgov.com, 14d