Full Article: DoD Compliance: RFID, UID, And Wide Area Workflow

By Fred Gulick,
Business Development,
Smart Label Solutions, LLC

RFID (radio frequency identification) is a technology that is being applied to the DoD supply chain for a simple reason: no human intervention is needed to identify a product moving through an RFID-enabled gate in the supply chain. The license plate information of the product is encoded in an RFID chip that can then be read when a tag moves through that gate. The RFID technology used for the pallet marking initiative at the DoD is a passive technology that is being adopted not only in the DoD supply chain but in the retail supply chain as well. Both the retail and DoD initiatives share the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Gen 2 standard (designed by EPCglobal, Inc.), which guarantees that each tag is unique.