Defense

According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, 13 federal agencies are already using or plan to deploy RFID technology. The use of RFID in the DoD supply chain has the potential to provide real benefits in inventory management, asset visibility, and interoperability in an end-to-end integrated environment.

RFID addresses a key challenge that has been noted at every node within the DoD supply chain – lack of visibility of item data. RFID (both active and passive) is required by DoD to:

• Provide near-real time in-transit visibility for all classes of supplies and materiel
• Provide “in the box” content level detail for all classes of supplies and materiel
• Provide quality, non- intrusive identification and data collection that enables enhanced inventory management
• Provide enhanced item level visibility