A lot of interesting details about military logistics and bureaucracy: > RFID offers a simpler, more efficient system. Which is why two airmen went to an Air F

A lot of interesting details about military logistics and bureaucracy: > RFID offers a simpler, more efficient system. Which is why two airmen went to an Air Force 2020 Innovation Rodeo — an ideas competition patterned after the TV show “Shark Tank” — to pitch a project to a panel of senior officers. > The airmen offered another scenario, one service members dread and that RFID promises to eliminate: A thousand troops suddenly need to deploy overseas, fast. To get the weapons they will carry, each must wait in a line that snakes around the building and barely seems to move. > ...Open with “full operational capability,” the RFID armory is a success as promised, according to spokeswoman Jasmine Porterfield. The new system cuts inventory time in half, limiting the need for two armorers and creating more schedule flexibility and training opportunities. The fact that Pentagon leaders don't even know that services are now tagging weapons is astounding: > Policy experts within the Office of the Secretary of Defense appeared unaware that the services have been tagging firearms with RFID.