The Pentagon will use radio frequency technology to manage military supplies (reposted)

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In 2002, among the military equipment and military supplies that the United States transported to the Iraqi front, there were nearly 1.2 billion worth of materials that were not recorded. Afterwards, the Pentagon wanted to sign a contract with its arms dealers to change the information collection technology from simple barcode recognition collection to radio frequency identification technology collection (RFID).

The Pentagon has included the use of radio frequency technology in its schedule. Two arms suppliers in Pennsylvania and California have begun to use radio frequency technology, and the technology will gradually be extended to other 17 arms supply bases. The Pentagon hopes that the popularization of radio frequency technology can be completed this year.

Kara Romanow, an analyst at the Boston AMR Research Center, pointed out that the Pentagon's plan to implement radio frequency identification technology will be reduced to a certain extent because some small suppliers find it difficult to accept the investment cost of information collection equipment to increase from 130 million to 230 million in the short term, especially on the basis of investment without any return.

But it is undeniable that the real-time, automated and precise military logistics depends on the application of advanced information collection technology, and the popularization of radio frequency technology will be inevitable in the future.