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•IntegrationSolutions: Smart Label Expertise Wins Government Contract

Lowry Computer Products, a provider of RFID-EPC (electronic product code), bar code, wireless, and data collection solutions, has performed its share of large-scale implementations, but none has been bigger than its ongoing project for the DLA. The DLA provides supply support and technical and logistics services to the U.S. military services and several federal civilian agencies. Headquartered in Virginia, the agency is the one source for nearly every consumable item – from groceries to jet fuel – for military installations in the United States and overseas.

Early this year, Lowry capitalized on its expertise in complex printer integrations to win a five-year, $8.5M contract to supply the DLA's sites around the world with RFID printer/encoders and smart labels. The contract is a direct result of the DoD's 2004 announcement that by 2007, its manufacturers and suppliers would have to tag their goods with passive RFID tags.

To accommodate this change, the DLA, which had been using a bar code system to track shipments in and out of its warehouses around the world, needed to implement RFID printers and labels in its facilities to allow its employees to retag incoming supplies when necessary for further shipment. (While some incoming pallets contain goods destined for a single DLA ‘customer,' others contain items for delivery to multiple customers. The latter have to be broken down and retagged with RFID labels before being shipped to their final destinations.)

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