A2B Support of Air Force UID Rollout in Europe Highlighted
PORTSMOUTH, RI (January 11, 2011) - Aviano Air Base in Italy is the first USAFE (US Air Force Europe) base to undertake full scale UID part marking. The UID team, consisting of four A2B marking technicians assisted by military personnel, has nearly completed the task of marking 13,515 pieces of equipment at Aviano. The effort was begun in early November 2010.
In August 2010, A2B was awarded a USAF contract worth $20 million in support of the Air Force Item Unique Identification (IUID) Part Marking Program. Under the contract A2B personnel are marking assets, with specialized Data Matrix bar codes, at 221 Air Force bases around the world. The purpose of the mark is to enable serialized item tracking under the DoD’s IUID Program. A2B, the leading provider of UID enterprise software solutions and a major UID label and plate manufacturer, will supply all of the 10 million required labels under a 2008 contract. The company also provides UID support to the Marine Corps, the Army, the Navy and DoD contractors.
For the full story, http://www.aviano.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123237556.
About A2B Tracking Solutions
A2B Tracking Solutions Inc. of Portsmouth, RI is the leading provider of turn-key solutions for bar code tracking. Since it was founded in 1994, A2B has lead the bar code industry movement into mobile computing, developing a state-of-the-art mobile tracking system for United Parcel Service (UPS). A2B’s UID Comply!® and UC! Web™data management software, developed specifically to support MIL STD 130 and MIL STD 129, are widely used within the defense community. Principals of A2B include founders of the bar code industry who have lead innovations in applications for 50 years. To date, A2B has completed more than 3,000 tracking installations around the world.
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