US Army ARDEC, AMSTA-AR-ALC, Building 455, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, 07806-5000

58 -- RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) BASED DATA TRANSCEIVING ''TAG'' TECHNOLOGY'' POC Defense Ammunition Logistics Activity, Mr. Jim Fedewitz, email=fedewitz, 201-724-4783. U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal, NJ in conjunction with U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Logistics Activity, is interested in employing technologies that can be used for monitoring the flow of materiel as it travels throughout the logistics system worldwide. In particular, the Army is interested in a class of devices often referred to as ''RF TAGS'' that employ radio frequency (RF) energy to transmit and receive information between an ''Interrogator'' and a ''TAG''. The purpose of this announcement is to survey the commerical marketplace for information regarding this technology and determine what particular product(s) are currently, or soon to be available, that could be used effectively for asset tracking, distribution management and control. Preliminary testing of products/systems that appear to be viable may be pursued by the Army folloing this market survey. Ideally these RF TAGS will have as many capabilities listed below as possible. It is recognized however, that there are cost and performance trade-offs associated with these capabilities. Desired capability/features are: remote read/write ability, read range of atleast 50 feet. ''Flexible'' read/write memory capacity ranging up to 128 K Bytes, operating frequency (or fequencies) that enables unlicensed use worldwide ability to discriminate one TAG from among a population of many - up to 500, low irradiated power levels - FCC part 15 compliant for unlicensed use data transfer rates of at least 9600 baud, and I/O ports to accomodate peripheral devices/sensors. Vendors are requested to provide information to Commander, US Army Defense Ammunition Logistics Activity, ATTN: AMSTA-AR-ALC (Mr. Jim Fedewitz), Building 455, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, 07806-5000. Phone inquiries may be directed to Mr. Jim Fedewitz at (201) 724-4783/3924 or fax (201) 724-5459. Internet: fedewitz@pica.army.mil. (201) 724-4783/3924 OR FAX (201) 724-5459. INTERNET ADDRESS: fedewitz@pica.army.mil. (0103)

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