Defense Department Awards Further RFID Contract

July 30, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: Business Line, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, Events, IT, Intermec, Services, USCG, logistics, production program 

Continuing their investment in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) the United States’ Defense Department awarded an Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery (ID/IQ) contract for RFID equipment. Intermec, Inc. was one of the winners. If all options on the contract are awarded it could be for nine years with a value up to $418 million.

Intermec has been making equipment for the electronic tracking of goods for over twenty years and has received significant contracts from DoD in the past. RFID has made it easier and more efficient to track and ship materiel by providing quick means to identify cargo and route it. Under the Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) – IV contract not only DoD entities but the U.S. Coast Guard, NATO and other allies as well as foreign countries may purchase this technology. Intermec like with all ID/IQ contracts is not necessarily guaranteed any work from it depending on how the U.S. wants to exercise the contract.

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Michigan economic development wars

June 22, 2008 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: Congress, Contract Awards, Federal Budget Process, Michigan, development program, logistics, production program 

As we have previously mentioned here and here Michigan has set up various entities to promote the state’s companies for defense contracts. According to this article though the head of the state organization is upset with one of the regional ones for not doing enough. The state hired a retired USMC general to run their organization and now he is raising a dispute over the efforts of one setup for the Western part of the state to the point where he wants to establish his own organization to do the work of the existing one. I guess when you are going out for Federal dollars no effort is wasted.

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ITAR screws up DoD contract

May 19, 2008 by Matthew Potter · Comment
Filed under: ABB Bomem, Canada, Federal Budget Process, production program 

According to this article, a Canadian company, ABB Bomem Inc., was a subcontractor to a US firm making a system for the US military. It needed parts from an American company that were delayed several months due to the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR). ITAR is a complicated legal process governing the export of American weapons and components to foreign entities. Since the Clinton scandals of the Nineties they have been ramped up a lot. Of course with the international integration of the worlds defense production they have also made it harder for US companies to do business with foreign nations and companies, as well as making it worse for foreign companies trying to get in to the large US market. This is why BAE, EADS and Finemeccanica are trying to buy US companies. Since they are already in the US and are considered American it makes it easier to operate under the ITAR.

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