Government is making moves on mobile drivers licenses, GSA administrator says

The General Services Administration is looking to mobile drivers licenses as “the future of digital identity verification,” its acting administrator Stephen Ehikian said Monday during an mDL industry day hosted by the agency. 

The agency’s single sign-on and identity proofing service, Login.gov, is planning to add mDLs as an option for users to prove their identity, according to a June roadmap. Over 100 million people use the offering to access government benefits and services online. 

Login.gov is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to add mDLs in the first half of fiscal 2026, which covers October of this year through March of next year, according to the roadmap.

This is part of a bigger project at NCCOE, which is building a reference architecture showing real-world business use cases for mDLs. 

Currently, the use of mDLs is largely confined ...