CLEAR (NYSE: YOU) and General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), announced a strategic collaboration this week to deploy CLEAR’s secure identity platform into federal health and civilian agencies. GDIT becomes CLEAR’s preferred federal systems integrator, with joint development happening in GDIT’s Emerge Labs and a live deployment already in place at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The timing is not accidental.
The Fraud Problem Driving This
In FY 2025, CMS achieved a record $41.9 billion in Medicare program integrity savings, up 59% from the year before, with a return on investment of $22.3 to $1. The administration has since launched the CRUSH initiative, a comprehensive regulatory effort to expand fraud, waste, and abuse enforcement across all federal health programs. The CRUSH framework explicitly prioritizes enhanced identity proofing as a prevention tool.
The scale of what it is fighting is significant. Healthcare identity fraud costs over $5 billion annually, with synthetic identity fraud up 311% from Q1 2024 to Q1 2025. The DOJ’s June 2025 healthcare fraud enforcement action charged 324 defendants tied to $14.6 billion in fraudulent claims. Identity verification is not a login upgrade. It is anti-fraud infrastructure.
Where CLEAR Already Stands
Most people know CLEAR from airports and stadiums. That consumer footprint masks a serious government identity business that has been quietly building. In March 2026, CMS added CLEAR, ID.me, and Login.gov as approved identity verification options on Medicare.gov, giving Medicare beneficiaries multiple verified sign-in options for the first time. CLEAR’s platform is certified to NIST’s IAL2 standard by the Kantara Initiative, the federal benchmark for identity assurance.
The GDIT collaboration formalizes what the CMS deployment already demonstrated. GDIT incorporated CLEAR1 into its hybrid multi-cloud products program supporting CMS before this week’s announcement. The preferred integrator agreement scales that relationship across additional federal health and civilian agencies.
The value proposition for agencies is specific: secure access to electronic health records, reduced fraud on federal benefit programs, and elimination of the manual identity processes that create both friction and vulnerability. CLEAR projects $2 million in savings per 25,000 verified patients in healthcare settings, a figure driven by reduced administrative burden and fraud prevention rather than technology licensing alone.
What GDIT Brings
CLEAR’s consumer platform is trusted and scaled. What it has not had, until now, is deep federal procurement relationships and the mission integration expertise required to deploy identity solutions into complex agency environments. GDIT has both.
General Dynamics generated $52.6 billion in revenue in 2025 across defense, aerospace, and technology services. GDIT specifically has decades of federal IT integration experience across health and civilian agencies, including CMS, the VA, and other major health programs. For CLEAR to compete against ID.me, which has 157 million total users and contracts across 21 federal agencies, it needs a partner that understands how federal procurement and deployment actually work. GDIT is that partner.
The competitive landscape for federal digital identity has three meaningful players: ID.me, Login.gov, and CLEAR. Each has different strengths. ID.me has the deepest federal footprint and consumer scale. Login.gov is the government-run alternative preferred by some agencies for data sovereignty reasons. CLEAR has the consumer trust brand, the growing healthcare vertical track record, and now a systems integration partner with existing agency relationships.
The GDIT partnership does not guarantee CLEAR wins federal contracts. It ensures CLEAR is positioned to compete for them at a moment when federal identity verification has moved from a compliance checkbox to a top administration priority.
Sources
- CLEAR
- General Dynamics
- CMS Fraud Prevention
- Biometric Update: Medicare Beneficiaries Get New Identity Verification Options
- Foley: New Federal Focus on Fraud Waste and Abuse
- Foley Hoag: CMS CRUSH Initiative
- On Healthcare Tech: The Medicare Login Upgrade Nobody’s Talking About
- FedScoop: Medicare.gov to Deploy ID.me
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