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Researchers Seek to Reduce Wastage for First-Strike Rations

A Florida group is studying ways to track the temperatures of food rations traversing the U.S. military's supply chain, and is developing software that would calculate how temperature could alter shelf-life.
Topics/Verticals: Supply Chain / Asset Tracking / Defense
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Asset Management in the U.S. Air Force: Using RFID in the Global Supply Chain

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) Program Office is responsible for promoting the use of RFID-based automati... More

Improving the Combat Rations Supply Chain With RFID Temperature Monitoring

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Shelf-stable combat rations are essential for enabling individual warfighters to perform assigned missions and survive battlefield threats. The curren... More

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RFID has been successfully tested and deployed at many U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) facilities as the U.S. armed services strive to improve supply... More

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RFID Journal LIVE! LatAm 2011 Report

RFID Journal's second annual event for Latin America showcased leading end users presenting powerful educational case studies. View the presentations from the event.

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  • Ensuring RFID's Bottom-Line Payoff
    Published February 2012

    SATO America's Robert Lanzendorf and Michael Beedles discuss why understanding the impact of data collection and tracking, as well as data integration, is essential to RFID optimization. (3 pages)

  • Basics in RFID
    Published January 2012

    SATO America describes the basic components of a radio frequency identification system, and explores the technology, applications and competitive advantages of RFID technology, as well as its uses for automatic identification and data collection (AIDC). (8 pages)

  • Item-Level RFID: A Competitive Differentiator
    Published January 2012

    Accenture's Mike Gorshe, Mary Rollman and Russ Beverly, in cooperation with the VICS Item Level RFID Initiative, discuss why item-level radio frequency identification is setting many companies in the retail supply chain apart from their competition. Chain-wide rollouts by a number of North America's largest clothing retailers, the authors indicate, are a clear sign that this technology will soon be broadly adopted by the industry. (12 pages)

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