DLS-3 operates from these user perspectives:
Badge Issuing Authority
- Issues and manages badges
- ID badges
- Special badges for controlled spaces
- Organization badges
- Issues and manages temporary visitor and vehicle passes
- Issues and manages automobile decals
- Security has complete visibility of the badging “enterprise”
Enterprise Badging System
- Shortens badge production times by nearly 500%
- Produces and controls all facility identity badges
- Maintains badge records and issue history
- Configurable badge layout
Sponsors of Visitors
- Creates automated visit requests
- Manually adds people to visit request or automatically uploads from a form letter
- Passes can be defined for date range, time range and days of the week
- Individuals can be marked as escort required, no escort required, or call sponsor
- Automated system will not allow visit requests for barred individuals
Contracting Officers
- Creates automated badge requests
- Manually adds people to badge request or automatically uploads from contractor supplied form letter
- Badge requests can be associated with a contract number
- Contracting officer can see the status of every badge and pass issued against a contract number
- Contracting officers have visibility to make sure all badges and passes are returned at the conclusion of the contract
Gate Security (Reception Areas, Guard Shacks, Visitor Centers)
- Creates passes for visitors and vehicles listed on a visit request
- Has restricted permission to create ad hoc passes for visitors and vehicles
- Cannot produce a vehicle pass for visitors whose driving privileges have been revoked
- Cannot produce a visitor pass for individuals who have been barred from facility access
Gate Security
- Gate security personnel can easily locate visit requests for scheduled visitors
- Standard DLS-3 passes print on light card stock using high speed industrial printers
- Information about the visit is printed in large easy-to-read letters
- More meaningful information than paper-based forms
- Foreign visitors are clearly marked
Unit Security Managers (Department and/or Division Security Managers)
- Security mangers have visibility over all persons connected with their departments and/or divisions
- No limit to how many units are assigned to a security manager
- Security managers can print entry authorization lists and badge inventory reports for their departments, divisions, or physical areas
- Badge reports can be printed for all types of badges and all statuses
Security Administration
- Controls which employees can enter an automated visit request as well as the allowed destinations for their visitors
- Controls which security personnel can perform gate duties
- Can bar specific visitors from the facility or revoke their driving privileges
- Can access pass histories
- Can access incident report data