The prospect of getting audited by the federal Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) can feel daunting and nerve-racking. For your organization to be deemed compliant with DCMA’s exacting requirements and specifications for government contracts, all employees should have a thorough understanding of your property management and shipment requirements, Item Unique Identification (IUID) methods and [...]
I had the opportunity to attend and to speak at the RFID Journal LIVE Conference earlier this month and it proved to be a very worthy event. There was a host of new technologies and new applications of RFID that were being showcased at the event that will undoubtedly improve data capture and accuracy [...]
With the start of Fiscal Year 2018 on October 1st -- The FIAR (Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness) Initiative dictates that all mission critical military assets be audit ready from “floor to books” and “books to floor”. In other words, the FIAR Mandate is calling for complete accountability of all DoD assets and property [...]
If you are doing business with the US Military, it is important that your organization has a plan in place to be fully compliant from the beginning and that you are properly marking and labeling all of the assets with a fully compliant IUID label before you ship them to the government. Obviously, you [...]
Let’s assume that you've got your compliant data organized and you've also determined the appropriate IUID label material that you are going to use. Now you are ready to start the process of creating the IUID label! In order to do so, you must shift your attention toward the concepts of validation of these [...]
