Common Access Card

nounid 1859·updated May 9, 2026

candidate

GlossaryL1 — what DictionaryL2 — how used ThesaurusL3 — relations Universaleverything

Standard identification/smart card issued by the Department of Defense that has an embedded integrated chip storing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

MWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Credential95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: CAC
plural: Common Access Cards
possessive: Common Access Card's
pluralpossessive: Common Access Cards'

Framework definitions

2 senses across 2 frameworks

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →

§1: Standard identification/smart card issued by the Department of Defense that has an embedded integrated chip storing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

§1: Standard identification/smart card issued by the Department of Defense that has an embedded integrated chip storing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates.

Outgoing relationships

term as subject — 0 triples

No outgoing triples

This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

term as object — 0 triples

No incoming triples

No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.