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Food and Livestock Tagging Expected to See Bumper Gains The sector is expected to be the dominant RFID market by 2017, when sales of RFID tags for food and livestock are slated to reach $2.66 billion.

RFID Journal, AIM Europe Produce Auto-ID Seminar At the third annual RFID Journal LIVE! Europe conference and exhibition, AIM Europe will host preconference sessions to educate attendees about a range of auto-ID topics, including how to use bar codes and RFID in tandem.

European EPC Competence Center to Provide Training at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2007 The EECC, founded by GS1 Germany, Deutsche Post World Net, Karstadt Warenhaus and Metro Group, will share experiences gained by these companies over the past four years with attendees looking to leverage EPC/RFID technologies.

HP Canada Partners With Universities to Create RFID Labs The joint effort, participants say, helps all involved parties conduct RFID pilots, carry out research and better serve the needs of industrial companies and other end users.

U.S. Army Gun-Monitoring RFID Prototype Gets Upgrade Developers from Augusta Systems and the Army's Benét Labs have crafted a new design to ensure the Abrams tank guns get serviced in a timely fashion.

Indonesia's Special Forces Unit Adopts RFID An RFID-enabled identity card enables soldiers to purchase items, and might soon be expanded to enable access to their medical history.

Small DOD Supplier Deploys RFID, Foresees Internal Benefits Nav-Aids, a 15-employee Canadian maker of test accessory kits for aircraft, has implemented a system enabling it to fulfill U.S. RFID mandates in-house.

Gentag to Commercialize Super RFID Technology Until now, the long-range real-time location system has been utilized solely by the military, but Gentag hopes to develop the tag for use in the private sector, to pinpoint people and objects up to 12 miles away.

Airbus to Present Case Study at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe Carlo K. Nizam, head of value-chain visibility and RFID at Airbus, will explain how the aircraft manufacturer is using RFID as part of an integrated, company-wide approach to help streamline business processes and reduce the cost of operations for all partners in the value chain.

Aggressive Sales Growth Predicted for Passive Tags in North America Frost & Sullivan expects a compound annual growth rate of 21.5 percent during the next six years, spurred in part by increased adoption in Canada.