Savi Technology has received a four-year, $45.8M contract to manufacture active radio frequency identification tags for the U.S. Army to track the service branch's equipment worldwide.

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Savi Technology has received orders from two Defense Department agencies to supply more than 48K active radio-frequency identification tags. The company said Monday it will provide the tagging systems as part of the second and final option year under DoD’s potential $102M RFID-IV contract. U.S. and international defense clients have received more than 1M tags from the company […] More

CSRA‘s SRA International subsidiary has been awarded a five-year, $25.5 million contract to provide a common, integrated radio frequency identification system to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Monday that the Army will implement passive Radio Frequency Identification III technology to track, locate and identify commodities and assets. SRA is scheduled to complete work by Dec. 18, 2021. The […] More

The U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command has awarded RFID Global Solution a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate for the company’s Visi-Trac 3.x enterprise software through June 7, 2019. The certification serves to help the company facilitate automated inventory management and asset tracking through its software and establish compliance with the Army’s data and security standards, RFID Global said Tuesday. Visi-Trac […] More

RFID Journal will host an event focused on radio-frequency identification technologies for the aerospace and defense sector on Oct. 20 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California. The media company said Thursday the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman and Delta Air Lines will participate in the event to share how they apply RFID technology in operations. RFID Journal added the forum will feature discussions on customer […] More

Northrop Grumman and its partner RFID Global Solution will showcase at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-hosted Demo Day a miniaturized chip and software designed to detect counterfeit electronic components. RFID Global said Tuesday it developed the Visi-Trac software application in support of a $12.3 million contract that Northrop received from DARPA in 2015 for the agency’s […] More

Bechtel has won an award from RFID Journal for the way the company used radio frequency identification tags to manage construction materials for three liquefied natural gas projects in Australia. The company won the Best RFID Implementation Award for its work to deploy Atlas RFID Solutions’ Jovix system in the state of Queensland, Bechtel announced Tuesday. […] More

Phil Fuster, Gary Hix and Pragyansmita Nayak of Hitachi Vantara Federal said in an opinion piece published Wednesday in Federal Times that the U.S. Postal Service, in seeking to improve efficiency during the holiday season, should find ways on how to harness the power of artificial intelligence.

Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest developments in the field.

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Generative artificial intelligence tools and technologies have skyrocketed in popularity across the public and private sectors especially after a host of large language models launched earlier this year.  Intel Public Sector Vice President and General Manager Cameron Chehreh believes AI will have a profound impact on a wide range of industries, technological capabilities and missions. In […] More

Boeing’s Tapestry Solutions subsidiary has rolled out its Enterprise Sensor Integration software system at BAE Systems’ facility in Nashua, New Hampshire, to help the British firm modernize its manufacturing infrastructure. Boeing said Monday it integrated Impinj Speedway radio frequency identification readers, Mojix STAR wide-area RFID sensors and other enterprise resource planning and asset management or ordering […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential $7.2 million contract modification to begin work on the second phase of the Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense program. The modification exercises the initial option to a previously awarded contract with a 21-month base term and brings the total contract value from $12.3 million […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the industrial Internet of Things market will achieve “tremendous growth” by 2020. The report notes that the transportation and manufacturing sectors are already applying the IoT technologies to their operations, Research and Markets said Dec. 4. “Energy and power along with, oil and gas industries are deploying […] More