Leadership Adoption of RFID: Piloting Technology ...

MSC 2004 in Review -- Commander's Perspective

... "TRANSCOM has been working with DOD and its component commands AMC, MSC, and SDDC for more than two years to bring new technology to bear on the visibility issue. One of the outcomes is the use of radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to make cargo selection, loading and tracking more accurate and much faster at those locations where the transportation mode changes. Resolving problems at those nodes eliminates the primary cause of cargo bottlenecks. Field commanders can be more confident that the equipment and supplies they need for their war fighters will arrive on time. Radio frequency identification tags are now being used instead of bar code readers to identify each specific piece of equipment and each container." ...