Department of Defense (DoD) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ...

From HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON READINESS, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TESTIMONY OF BRIGADIER GENERAL EDWARD G. USHER III, DIRECTOR, LOGISTICS PLANS, POLICIES AND STRATEGIC MOBILITY, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS ...

... "Department of Defense (DoD) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). One of our greatest challenges during OIF was visibility of materials and supplies in distribution. A recent initiative to mitigate those challenges is the implementation of RFID. We are using RFID tags on all sustainment cargo for OIF II and will apply tags and interrogate down to the tactical level. We plan to use RFID technology to obtain visibility to the battalion level and to push tagged shipments as far forward as possible. Distribution teams with interrogators are established at key nodes in theater to employ RFID visibility to the tactical level. While we are working the initial RFID implementation now, the endstate is full integration into the End-to-End (E2E) distribution process. " ...