The cash-strapped Social Security Administration is turning to RFID to track rack-mounted IT assets at its National Computing Center (NCC) in Woodlawn, Md. It’s expected that the RFID solution will reduce inventory cycle times by a factor of 10X, while improving overall inventory accuracy by as much as 20 percent. The contract for the software-based [...]

Eighty-five percent of all credentials issued annually will be eIDs within three years, and countries issuing eIDs will exceed those still using traditional IDs by four to one, according to a recent report by Acuity Market Intelligence. With that in mind, HID Global, a provider of solutions for the delivery of secure identity, has provided [...]

Sector: Aerospace & Defense Savings: ($2M-plus) Submitted by Intermec The U.S. Navy is using RFID in several ways, including monitoring the pack-up-kits, or PUKs, that are deployed each time a Navy aviation squadron is deployed. Each PUK contains 500-600 replacement parts worth more than $10 million. Using RFID has helped the Navy to gain better [...]

Sector: Aerospace & Defense Savings: ($10M-plus) Submitted by ODIN RFID Last March, NATO issued a contract to ODIN RFID to affix RFID tags to its fleet of SeaSparrow missiles, with a goal of reducing maintenance on the units. In January, the first RFID-enabled missile left the manufacturing facility en route to an undisclosed port destination. [...]

When Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass was chosen by the Department of Defense’s Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program to oversee a project to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, the government emphasized the safety measures that needed to be in place. Bechtel Parsons is turning to RFID to meet [...]

When Paul Peters spoke at RFID Live last April,  the deputy assistant secretary of defense for supply chain integration for the Department of Defense indicated that the U.S. budget crisis would not slow the deployment of RFID in the Department of Defense. A year later, government spending on RFID projects has slowed considerably. Since the [...]

The U.S. government and the Department of Defense sliced spending on RFID substantially in 2011. When Identive Group released its fourth quarter report on March 1 for the period ended Dec. 31, the company stated that although full year revenue increased 21 percent to $102.7 million, the company saw a $3.6 million decline in sales to [...]

In a day and age when the government is trying to trim its budget, RFID can offer a significant savings. Placing RFID tags on missiles used by the U.S. Navy and by NATO, for example, could save up to $300 million in unneeded maintenance costs a year. Ten months after awarding a contract to ODIN to [...]

The Texas Department of Public Safety is now tracking more than $1 billion worth of assets by using RFID in an extension of a program designed to track evacuees during hurricanes. In the new partnership with Radiant RFID, the DPS will now utilize the firm’s adaptive suite of asset tracking tools to manage and track [...]

The clock is ticking for suppliers to the Department of Defense. Starting this month, the Defense Logistics Agency will require suppliers to include RFID tags on all items being shipped to its 25 supply depots. The DLA, the supply chain arm of the DoD, has made this request before. However, the agency is adding teeth [...]