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Austrailia Expands RFID Activities

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is expanding its use of RFID tags following successful pilots to more than two dozen locations around the globe, a correspondent for Computerworld reports.

An ADF spokesperson said plans are underway to seek out other uses for the technology, which is already attached to pallets used by the Defence Materiel Organisation’s (DMO) logistics division. [end] 

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