Allowing more beneficiaries to renew their IDs online frees up the pass and ID offices for active duty military and civilian government employees who need to apply for or renew a CAC, officials said.

A customer hands his Common Access Card over to a technician for renewal inside the military personnel ID card section at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 10, 2021.

A 6th Force Support Squadron ID Card Kiosk sits by the food court inside the Base Exchange at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., April 16, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hiram Martinez) ...

– The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, better known by the acronym AAFES, ... “All that civilian employees need is a current Common Access Card to shop at the exchange,” Lowell said, ...