Correction: 43% of DoD suppliers aren't RFID compliant; $12.2 Million wasted; No compliance impact until 2010

I got ahold of the actual Inspector General report here.

Key points that I haven't seen elsewhere:

- DLA has spent $12.2 Million on RFID installation and if they don't get their compliance up, will have wasted it.

- IG's suggestion is to... MANAGE the PROCESS! 

i.e. Establish responsibilities, measure goals, perform reviews, provide training on  compliance to staff, ...

- Army 'forgets to include RFID clause' 78% of the time.

- Army suppliers are 100% non-compliant with RFID clause.

- 'Sanctions' for non-compliance will not begin until FY 2010!

- 35% of suppliers are not sending the ASN (Advanced Shipment Notice)

--- Without an ASN, the RFID is 'useless' as a receiving tool because it is just a random number.

- "Corpus Christ" depot said they had never seen an RFID tag and didn't know why these great big monoliths had been installed in their doorways...

- Every service responded to the report with basic niceness to begin implementing solutions toward better compliance, management, and training... Except the Army who did not acknowledge its existence...

- The DLA is releasing a TRAINING MODULE for its contracting officers.  It will be mandatory for every contracting officer to be trained / complete this training module.

For more thoughts on this, see my original post.