Department of Homeland Security to Deploy RFID Technology

Posted Jan 26, 2005, 1:48 PM ET by Michael Sciannamea

The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to deploy RFID technology. According to Homeland Security’s undersecretary for border and transportation security Asa Hutchinson, the technology will be tested at a simulated port this spring to determine if the technology will help to improve secruity. Beginning July 31, testing will begin at the ports of Nogales East and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria Bay in New York, and Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in Washington.

Last week, the Postal Service awarded a multi-million dollar contract to I.D. Systems Inc. of Hackensack, N.J., to implement the firm’s RFID-based Wireless Asset Net industrial equipment tracking and management system at postal facilities nationwide.