RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Tags were a good security
measure to come up with – or is it really? Well, the US
Department of Defense came up with it and announced such matter
even on the web through a post at the RFid Gazette
(http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/10/pentagon_implem.html) by
Jimmy Atkinson on October 12, 2004.
According to the news on October, 2004, the US Department of
Defense plans to use wireless tags to manage its healthcare
supplies and supply chains. Further, the Pentagon had assured
that the RFID tags will provide the US military with ‘global
transit visibility’. RFID should simplify moving, storing and
distributing essential supplies such as drugs and medical
consumables from bases in the United States to wherever US
forces are in action around the world. This is an innovation to
much the growing active international role by the US military.
All the contracts with suppliers that have been signed from
October 1, 2004 are required already to feature the technology.
Then during the new year of the present year, 2005, the RFID
tags were already in full implementation.
This Pentagon decision of wireless-tagging is a follow-up on the
wireless-tagging project carried out by the IBM. There are no
reports, however, of how effective and important, the tag became
for the IBM.
There are two kinds of tags: the passive and the active ones.
The Pentagon is using both passive and active tags. And now,
they are already in use. But, I am at a loss on what wondrous
results to the efficiency in supplying medical supplies this
wireless-tagging thing had done to the defense corps. Does this
improve the naval, ground, marine and aerial forces of the US
Department of Defense’s chance for adequate medical supply? Does
this solve the problem of immediate medical rescue and attention
for the gallant soldiers and agents of the Pentagon?
I think that before ever these wireless-tagging innovations be
prioritized, the issue of adequate and sufficient medical supply
for the thousands of recruits and forces be addressed first by
the US Department of Defense. It’s not bad to do practices that
feature technological advances to secure these drugs. It’s not
even bad to find ways of efficient handling, storage and
distribution. But first of all, they must concern themselves on
the sufficiency of the drugs they will be handling, storing and
distributing, before anything else. Now, is that too much to
ask? So, what’s new with RFID tags? Does it solve the problem of
the rank and file forces of the US defense corps?
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