RFID Emerging Scientific Systems ...

Deputy Secretary's Draft Testimony to the House Committee on Science

... "Sophisticated scientific information systems are critical to the continued competitive advantage of the United States. The systems that underlie the Nation's research advances in science and engineering the cyberinfrastructure are rapidly expanding in all directions. Individual information devices from radio-frequency ID (RFID) tags to smart dust to micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are becoming ever smaller, more capable, and more ubiquitous. At the other end of the scale, system complexity systems of systems of systems is growing rapidly as well. It is crucial that standards and measurements for reliability, manageability, interoperability and security be included from the beginning of system design to avoid costly retrofits. " ...