The US National Guard has awarded a $4.6 million deal to Savi Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Co. to get its mobile RFID systems to enhance its real-time tracking of supplies at National Guard armories and for deployed operations.
The deal calls for Savi to provide its RFID systems to each state’s Joint Force Headquarters, National Guard units in the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with PDK units and related equipment.
As part of the deal, Savi Technologies would offer 54 PDKs, 5,400 active RFID tags and 120 mobile handheld readers. The company will also take responsible for RFID-related training for National Guard logisticians throughout the USA.
David Stephens, General Manager of Savi said on the deal,
The contracts with the National Guard demonstrate the growing need to rapidly and efficiently track critical materiel throughout their own facilities and into austere environments where there is little or no available communications or power infrastructure.
