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National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Tagging War Shipments: Far More Complicated Task Than Expected By January 2005, all shipments of military equipment and supplies destined for Iraq or other battle zones must be labeled with an electronic tag that helps track the content of each box or package.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Tracking Military Supplies No Longer Requires RFID The Defense Department has relaxed a mandate that all food, equipment and other provisions to the U.S. military have radio-frequency identification tags on their products.
National Defense October 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Officials Refining Requirements For Smart Tags on Military Shipments The Defense Department is banking on the success of a new smart-tag technology to improve the management and tracking of shipments moving in and out of major depots.
National Defense May 2005 Harold Kennedy	Electronic Tags Companies that supply military equipment to the Defense Department should begin voluntarily to put electronic tags on shipments, advised the assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for supply-chain integration.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 David Blanchard	The Five Stages of RFID As manufacturers come to accept the inevitability of RFID, they are also discovering some tangible benefits.
CFO September 1, 2004 John Goff	Dude, Where's My Printer? RFID technology may someday revolutionize how companies track their products. But problems still lie ahead in adopting workable systems.
Food Processing January 2005 Judy Rice	RFID on your package: No pain, no gain? Implementation of radio frequency identification technology isn't as simple as just slapping an RFID tag on a shipping case or pallet. Here are the critical considerations before implementing this technology ... and some available outside help.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2004 Traci Purdum	Factory To Foxhole: RFID Deadline Looms In compliance with the U.S. Department of Defense, most manufacturers are putting the finishing touches on their radio frequency identification initiatives. Others need to pick up the pace.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Researchers try to build a better RFID reader Pentagon leaders are requiring radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for most materials delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense after Jan. 1, 2005.
National Defense April 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Changes on the Way for Army Logistics Ops The Army is not organized to rapidly set up a base of operations and launch a major campaign from an area that does not already have basic infrastructure.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz	Reaching For ROI On RFID Compliance continues to drive most RFID implementations. But Ford, International Paper and Gillette have found ways to cut costs and improve efficiencies.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Ben Ames	RFID Tracking Brings New Challenges to Logistics The system has been proven in closed-loop logistics pools, but the challenge can be too much for open supply chains. In practice, RFID tracking can overwhelm a company's computers with a flood of new data.
National Defense July 2004 Harold Kennedy	Services Need to Share Logistics Information The lack of accurate information about supply requirements, shipments and deliveries has hurt military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Learning how to fix those information gaps is one of the most important lessons of the war.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Struggling To Comply With Pentagon Smart-Tag Mandate As the deadline nears for contractors to install smart tags on shipments of critical military supplies, an industry survey reveals that many companies have yet to come to grips with the new regulations.
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Digital Age Logistics Systems Still No Panacea for Troops Providing essential supplies and services to troops on the front lines ranks increasingly consumes larger bites of the Pentagon's half-trillion-dollar annual budget.
Knowledge@Wharton	Managing Supply Chains: What the Military Can Teach Business (and Vice Versa) In reality, both worlds have an opportunity to learn from each other's mistakes and successes.
HBS Working Knowledge February 2, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	RFID: The Promise (and Danger) of Smart Barcodes Thanks to Wal-Mart, we all have heard about radio frequency identification. Now RFID tags are set to pop up on everything from razor blades to cattle.
CIO December 1, 2003 Meridith Levinson	The RFID Imperative The adoption of RFID technology is inevitable. Its transformational promise, huge. But the success of RFID in your business depends on your infrastructure. Here's what you need to add to your holiday to-do list
IndustryWeek March 1, 2004 John Teresko	Material Handling Moves Up Decision-making that was once incidental to the production process has assumed major competitive significance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009	In Brief Savi provides DOD with RFID supply chain tracking technologies... Counterfeit electronic components standard issued by SAE International... BAE Systems opens Space Coast office for UAS, NASA support... etc.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	The A to Z of RFID While consumers will grow to appreciate the RFID advantage, investors should aim closer to the vest to cash in on the RFID revolution.
IndustryWeek June 1, 2003 John Teresko	Winning With Wireless In manufacturing, going wireless means developing a strategy for tracking what matters most -- via technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification), bar codes and machine monitoring. The results revolutionize the enterprise.
CFO November 1, 2003 Esther Shein	Radio Flier Wal-Mart presents its vendors with an offer they can't refuse: implement RFID or else.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008	In Brief Lockheed Martin C4ISR equipment onboard National Security Cutter Waesche... BAE Systems fires first shot from Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon prototype... etc.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Commanders Ponder How Best To Mend Battlefield Logistics A team of about 100 logistics experts dispatched to Iraq earlier this year pinpointed serious problems in the distribution of military supplies in the war zone, and is taking steps to solve them.
CIO February 15, 2003 John Edwards	Tag, You're It RFID technology provides fast, reliable asset identification and management.
InternetNews June 17, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Sean Campbell, RFID Leader, IBM Business Consulting Big Blue's RFID point man tabs the industries making the best use of the technology and discusses some of the remaining challenges.
CIO February 15, 2004 Galen Gruman	One in a Thousand - Location-Based Systems Radio tags can be a cost effective way of taking inventory.
National Defense February 2011 James R. Giermanski	Military Supply Chain Tracking System Both Inefficient and Dangerous The U.S. system of technology and regulations falls apart because the Defense Department uses RFID systems to control and monitor its global container movement. The application of this technology to track cargo overseas is inefficient, dangerous and fundamentally flawed.
CIO August 18, 2008 Thomas Wailgum	These Boots Were Made for Tracking: Nine West Tries On RFID Strategy Footwear giant Nine West joins a long list of retailers in search of the RFID Holy Grail: item-level RFID tracking. Will the move be a good fit? Even the mighty Wal-Mart has struggled to cash in on this technology.
Food Engineering February 8, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins	RFID Making the Right Moves Despite the glitches, many food companies are proceeding with RFID implementations, convinced the technology will pay off long term.
National Defense January 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Improving Maintenance Of Military Gear Requires Access to Information With a growing backlog of equipment repair and maintenance work, the U.S. military services and contractors are finding that, in order to expedite the job, they need computer systems that can share information across the supply chain.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen	Wal-Mart's Big Gamble Wal-Mart's mandate that manufacturers adopt RFID to improve supply-chain management has clear benefits for Wal-Mart, but the payoff for manufacturers is less certain.
InternetNews June 7, 2004 Colin C. Haley	An Eye on RFID ROI Stumbling blocks like standards and costs are being addressed and execs are gaining confidence in the technology.
IndustryWeek September 22, 2010	No Slowdown for RFID Roughly 2.3 billion RFID tags will be sold in 2010, up from 1.9 billion in 2009.
InternetNews June 14, 2005 Colin C. Haley	No Substitute For RFID 'Launch and Learn' When it comes to radio frequency identification systems, there's no substitute for trial and error.
PC Magazine October 28, 2003	The Lookout: A Fix for RFID Researchers at RSA Security's lab have come up with a technique they say will eliminate many of the privacy concerns surrounding the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags.
National Defense August 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	No Quick Fixes on the Horizon For Army Logistics Operations The Army intends to field quick-reaction brigades that can respond to contingencies and help facilitate the deployment of a larger force. The goal is to avoid the lengthy buildups that preceded the most recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Technologies Rushed to War: And Then What? Hasty deployment of specialized military equipment to forces under fire in Iraq and Afghanistan have saved the day more than once for Army troops. But much work remains to be done in offering spare parts, manuals and other important follow-on services.
InternetNews July 19, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	SOA as RFID Middleware webMethods announced it was among the vendors chosen to provide business integration technology for the U.S. Department of Defense's radio frequency identification technology push.
National Defense June 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Battlefield Logistics: Color It `Purple' As pressure intensifies at the Defense Department to improve logistics support to U.S. troops in the field, decision makers within the military services, Joint staff and combatant commands are stepping up efforts to fix immediate problems and try to develop long-term solutions.
Entrepreneur May 2007 Amanda C. Kooser	Tag, You're It You can be RFID-compliant, even on a tight budget.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Ponders Formation Of Expert Logistics Units As the U.S. Army reorganizes from a division- to a brigade-based combat force, it also intends to change the way it delivers supplies and logistics support to the front lines.
Wired July 2004 Josh McHugh	Attention, Shoppers: You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.
InternetNews August 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Army on Track With Tank Sensors An IBM set-up could keep military trucks rolling and personnel safer. The set-up would integrate sensor data into information networks, so the information could be used to make intelligent decisions without being on the scene.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	RFID spending will surpass $3 billion in 2010 The adoption of radio-frequency-identification technology continues to gather momentum, and hardware and software spending will accelerate in late 2006 and 2007 as true benefits are documented.
Food Processing January 2005 Jack Neff	RFID: Track and (t)race The key for most companies to get ready for RFID isn't necessarily to hop on the bandwagon, but to re-examine another industry supply chain issue -- data synchronization.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.