Gemalto has received a two-year government grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to team up with Colorado, Idaho, Maryland and Washington D.C. on a pilot program for the development of digital driver's licenses. Gemalto said Monday  the grant requires the company to support the jurisdictions on the creation of a smartphone-based credential and the implementation of an interoperable system currently not available on the market. Katerina Megas, NIST pilots program manager of the national strategy for trusted identities in cyberspace, said the company's digital driver's license system has presented guiding principles on trusted identities in cyberspace. "Our goal is to work with organizations to determine the best technology and implementation strategy that will maintain both citizen privacy and security."