Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP)

Recent News

• FY22 Procurement Funding: The federal government is under a Continuing Resolution (CR) through December 3, 2021. Select this article to learn how this will impact your existing or new CAP request.
• Top 5 ways to speed up your CAP request: To help ensure a quick turnaround on your CAP request, be sure to let your POC know that you’re submitting a request and that they’ll have to provide a statement of approval for the request. Curious what the other 4 tips are? Select this article to find out!
• Change in CAP's scope: Effective October 1, 2020, CAP is a procurement resource funded only to provide assistive technology to Department of Defense employees, and active duty Service members.
• Provision Clarification: Sit-to-Stand workstations to Service members: On October 1, 2018, the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) announced that it would stop providing sit-to-stand accommodations to all of its Service members, Department of Defense, and Federal employee populations because of budgetary constraints. To clarify, CAP will review and consider requests for sit-to-stand accommodations for active duty Service members when certain severely limiting medical conditions are present.
• COVID-19 and Telework Accommodations: Due to COVID-19, CAP can now ship accommodations to alternative addresses and provide duplicate accommodations for the telework space on a case-by-case basis.
• COVID-19 and potential delivery disruptions: Due to the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, accommodation delivery may be delayed.
• Alert Notification!: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak CAP will no longer provide physical, in person needs assessments, including those at CAPTEC in the Pentagon until further notice.
• EEOC and OPM Announce Resources for Disability Self-Identification Efforts: The EEOC and OPM have released a joint memorandum highlighting important revisions to the SF-256.
• Important Notice: All reasonable accommodation requests submitted to CAP will require an approval e-mail from an approving official or agency personnel that are authorized to approve reasonable accommodations on behalf of employees at your agency or component.