RFID Investment Highlights

FY 2006 Technology Administration Budget Highlights

... "Interoperability and security for emerging scientific systems (+$2 million). 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 microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are becoming ever smaller, more capable, and more ubiquitous. " ...