ISO 18013-5 Compliant Smartphone-Based Digital Software Badges

The Synthetik team is pleased to provide this Phase I SBIR proposal to develop a distributed, interoperable, ISO 18013-5-compliant and mdoc-based digital software badge (DSB). The DSB will provide the capability to prove a first responder personnel’s identity and qualifications onsite securely and efficiently in a disaster response operating environment.During Phase I we will demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach towards developing distributed digital software badges leveraging and extending vendor (e.g. Apple, Google, Samsung) implementations of ISO 18013-5-compliant mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs). We will first extend Apple’s iOS Mobile Driver’s License software development kit (SDK) – specifically PassKit – to provide an ISO 18013-5 compliant digital badge capability through the native iOS Wallet App during Phase I. We plan to extend this capability to support other platforms and devices (e.g. Android OS on Samsung and Google hardware, respectively) during Phase II, and will utilize the design and framework developed during Phase I as a foundation towards operationalization of this technology. We will provide an MVP (minimum viable product) demonstration of our approach and implementation at the conclusion of Phase I.This straightforward technical approach will allow Synthetik and DHS to focus on the key points of innovation for this solution, including authentication in a communication limited environment via implementation of secure DID-based fallback methods to authenticate the veracity of a presented which can be utilized without relying on network.