RFID Tracking Evidence Management ...

U.S. Senator Tom Harkin has announced $1.5 million in federal funding for the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University ...

... "A fourth part of the MFRC mission is development of technical innovations in management and infrastructure, or TIMI. TIMI looks at how information, engineering and communication technologies can be implemented in crime laboratories to make the labs work more efficiently with existing resources. A TIMI project will evaluate the use of Radio Frequency Identification tagging, or RFID, in crime laboratories for evidence management, in particular for process management in a section such as a DNA laboratory where forensics experts need to know how long samples need to stay at certain stages and make sure they don�t go to the wrong department at the wrong time. " ...