Replies to post #24135 on East Coast Diversified Corp (fka ECDC)

[yerliberal]

This one (nice try):

The Government Accountability Office investigated the military use of RFID technology and concluded that the Defense Department should do a better job articulating its goals and policies concerning RFID.

“We recommended — and the Department of Defense partially concurred — that the secretaries of each military service and the administrators of other components should determine requirements for the number of tags needed, compile an accurate inventory of the number of tags currently owned, and establish procedures to monitor and track tags, including purchases, reuse, losses, and repairs,” said GAO in a January 2007 report. “In its response to our report, the Department of Defense agreed to direct the military services and the U.S. Transportation Command to develop procedures to address the reuse of the tags as well as procedures for the return of tags no longer required. However, the department did not agree to establish procedures to account for the procurement, inventory, repair, or losses of existing tags in the system.”

[yerliberal]

And this one:

Earlier this year, the Pentagon designated the U.S. Transportation Command as the “lead functional proponent for implementation of radio frequency identification and related automatic identification technology for the Department of Defense supply chain,” said a Transportation Command news release. The command operates the so-called Global Transportation Network — an automated command and control information system that gives users access to information about supplies and cargo while in transit.

According to Defense Department acquisition regulations, as of March 1, the only acceptable passive RFID tags are the ones known as “electronic product code class 1, generation 2.” Earlier versions of the tags no longer were authorized after Feb. 28.