Reports that the military has started outfitting firearms with RFID tags for tracking have raised security alarms. The concern: What if the enemy uses the tags to track soldiers on the battlefield?

Sept. 15, 2003 – RFID Journal has learned that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to ask its top 100 suppliers to put RFID tags on pallets, cases and big-ticket items. The military intends to spell ...

The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense later this year will test enhanced radio frequency identification tags readable from more than 100 feet to improve tracking of military supplies. These "active ...

The British Army has been testing technologies — including RFID tags — that could reduce casualties from 'friendly fire' incidents. Earlier this month Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise tested the ...

Defense Department requires the use of passive RFIDS tags on all materiel bought after Oct. 1 and delivered next year. The Defense Department's new radio-frequency identification (RFID) policy ...

Many military personnel and government workers at naval shipyards, airbases and other military sites became mobile workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As conditions change and employees adopt hybrid ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. June 2, 2009—Researchers working with the Finnish Defence Forces tested an RFID-based patient identification system that utilized mobile phones ...

Determined to track the whereabouts of their guns, some units of the U.S. Air Force and Army have explored radio frequency identification technology that could let enemies detect American troops on ...