Back in April of this year, I penned a blog in our Tracking Trends eNewsletter entitled, "IUID. A Potential Antidote to Government Waste." In it, I spoke a bit on the estimated worth of all Department of Defense assets ($3 trillion) and how a significant portion of DoD assets are unaccounted for - they either [...]
As a CEO, I get to do what any CEO loves to do: gather a bunch of unsuspecting employees, especially new hires, into a conference room and explain to a captive audience exactly what the company does and why it’s so great for the people it serves. I tell them about how our breakthrough Auto [...]
Change is constant and unavoidable. We don't know when or where or how it will impact us, so we try to stay agile - technologically, organizationally and mentally - to anticipate the emerging technologies and shifting paradigms that will likely disrupt the status quo. It's a lot to think about and sometimes it's enough to [...]
Property managers recognize that today's asset tracking best practices demand Auto Identification Technology (AIT) such as printed barcodes or RFID tags. For military asset tracking, the barcode standard is IUID (Item Unique Identification) as defined by MIL-STD-130N, although the optimal asset tracking solution will handle other types of asset tags, as well as those needed [...]
It’s hard to believe A2B has been focused on IUID for ten years. Although the adoption of IUID by the Department of Defense didn’t really become official until January of 2004, a lot of time and effort went into formulating the final policy and making sure the department could hit the ground running on that [...]
The FIAR (Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness) Directorate came out of the DoD Comptroller’s office under former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Secretary Hagel has endorsed the plan stating that he will “ensure we make that deadline of 2017 on all audits,” the ultimate goal of the Directorate. The FIAR Guidance (March 2013) in support [...]
Federal government spending and managing of budgets is foremost in the minds of civil servants and contractors alike. One thing is certain - a massive amount of money is spent every day. Just look at the national debt clock in Times Square. (There is actually a website dedicated to it. Prepare yourself. It'll make your [...]
We thought it would be fun to offer some thoughts on common IUID SNAFUS we have encountered. This is not to be cynical; many organizations have gotten it right and are reaping the benefits. Instead it is presented as a cautionary for those who ignore business rules and best practices and go on to bake a [...]
I'd like to explain why Wi-Fi is very similar to IUID, the ISO supported standard for global asset identification and machine-readable encoding used by the US military. To coin a pun, if you use a laptop, you'll be able to track me nicely on this one. In fact, you might be reading this blog from [...]
The brave men and women who serve our country in the face of danger know the true meaning of the term “readiness.” In laymen terms readiness is knowledge of what you have, where it is, and whether it is ready for use. For most of us that means the chain saw is in the garage [...]