Spread of RFID in Defense slower than expected


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	Spread of RFID in Defense slower than expected By Bob Brewin Jul 12, 2007 The Defense Department's requirement that suppliers use radio frequency identification technology may be encountering resistance within the department, indicating that the effort may need time for the technology to mature. Demand throughout Defense for RFID readers and tags from a contract known as Army Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT) has been so light that the Army does not plan to award new contracts until the first quarter of fiscal 2008, which starts in October, said Jo Manson, PM J-AIT spokeswoman. The initial PMJ-AIT contract, awarded in September 2005, expired in June, and Manson said demand "was low due to delays in full-scale passive RFID implementation across DoD." In passive RFID, electronic readers beam a signal to a tag attached to a case or pallet. The tag sends back information about the supplies contained in the cases or on the pallet. See the full-length article
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