Speaker:

Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

Speaker:

Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal

By leveraging the supply relationships of its suppliers and customers, using new and exciting technologies, and integrating RFID into more of its logistics footprint and processes, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) will soon provide improved visibility beyond just receiving goods into inventory. In this session, learn how this capability will deliver improved availability, trust, responsiveness, speed and efficiency within the defense supply chain to support the U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support has installed an RFID system to ensure U.S. Air Force recruits at Lackland Air Force base acquire the proper clothing and footwear for their training and active duty, as well as to track goods from vendors, third-party-logistics providers and military warehouses though the supply chain. DLA Troop Support purchases and ships hundreds of thousands of uniforms and related items to armed services members at nine U.S. recruit training areas. The supply chain is complex; as many as 400 vendors and subcontractors in the United States provide the products, which are sent either to commercial third-party-logistics companies or to DLA warehouses, and then on to a recruiting center when they are ordered. Learn how the successful project is being expanded to track products from vendors through three third-party-logistics warehouses and one of the DLA’s 22 warehouses, prior to shipping to recruit centers.

Speaker:

Angela Richwine, Business Process Analyst, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is now five years into its effort to transform its supply chain using both active and passive RFID technologies. In this session, a panel of experts will provide an in-depth update regarding the rollout's progress, both within the United States and overseas. In addition, attendees will gain insights into the next stages of the deployment, and have their questions answered by a panel of experts.

RFID has been successfully tested and deployed at many U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) facilities as the military strives to improve its supply chain processes. In this session, hear the benefits the DOD is achieving, and how its suppliers are meeting tagging mandates and achieving benefits, both internally and across their supply chains.

Soon after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, U.S. military forces arrived on the devastated island to provide aid. In its efforts to provide assistance to the earthquake-damaged nation, the military is using 433 MHz active RFID tags to track supplies and equipment. RFID tags were attached to all cargo containers shipped from a military installation in Florida, and the supplies were then moved efficiently into Haiti. Water, ready-to-eat meals and medicine made up the bulk of the earliest shipments, with construction equipment and other large assets arriving later. Learn how the military used RFID to overcome the challenges presented by a rapid-deployment situation.

An armored vehicle manufacturer is employing an RFID-enabled real-time locating system (RTLS) to track each vehicle as it is assembled, from the time a chassis is delivered to the company's manufacturing facility to when the vehicle is shipped off to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to ensuring that the vehicles are delivered to the war zones on time, the company has access to data enabling it to understand how long vehicles spend in each process.

Radio frequency identification can be employed within a military hospital in numerous ways. The challenge is to find the applications that best benefit the organization. In this session, obtain a comprehensive overview of how RFID is currently being utilized in the U.S. military, and how future uses of the technology may be implemented over the coming years. Learn how RFID is being used to support a military supply chain, as well as locate patients' medical records.