Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a kind of automatic identification and data acquisition technology based on wireless technology, and its application started from the identification of friendly aircraft during World War II. With the maturity and development of computer information technology and ultra-large-scale integrated circuit technology, radio frequency identification technology in various fields has been rapid development.

At present, the application of radio frequency identification technology in military logistics field is mainly concentrated in the monitoring of equipment and material position and status on the way of transportation, storage management and specific items finding and distribution.

(1) in-transit equipment and materials visualization management. That is, in the container or loaded with large equipment, container trailer installed on the radio frequency tag, while in the transport starting point, end point and each midway transfer station and other nodes configured fixed or handheld radio frequency reader and background computer system. When the installation of radio frequency tag container or transport vehicles through, radio frequency reader reads out the information stored in the radio frequency tag and transmits to the background computer system storage and display. If necessary, the radio frequency reader can also update the content on the radio frequency tag according to the instruction. Computer system by wired, wireless network or communication satellite will equipment, material information transmitted to a higher level of the central database, all levels of logistics personnel and relevant units through the database can be timely access to all materials in transit location, quantity changes, damage to goods and supplementary changes in information.

(2) Material gathering place storage management. The radio frequency recognition technology besides is used in the transportation en route to track the cargo location, the quantity, the condition and so on application, in the material gathering place temporary opening the field battle yard and the various kinds of permanent cargo warehouse storage management also plays an important role. In the temporary field yard and all kinds of permanent warehouse material storage operation, the material transfer, the distribution of the distribution, the repackaging, the shelf management and so on, the radio frequency recognition technology and the bar code technology also can play its record information, the recognition cargo function, and has than the bar code optical recognition farther role distance and the operation is more simple and so on the advantage.

(3) Specific item finding system. In the temporary goods assembly place or general warehouse, when need to find a certain item, the operator start handheld RF reader to launch RF electromagnetic wave activation tag, installed in the container or pallet on the RF tag that will make a response, beep or flash prompting the location of the item, at the same time to the RF reader back to the item information, the operator can find the container by sound and light. If the sound and light prompting failure, or not suitable for the sound and light prompting occasions (such as noisy environment or sound and light control situation), but also through the handheld radio frequency reader built-in positioning device to find.

(4)Item issuing device. The radio frequency recognition device also may use in the personal supplies, the daily necessities issue management. In the past, the U.S. army is using the bar code technology to issue the clothing, the clothing company will paste the bar code in the need to issue the military uniform, the combat uniform, send to the recruitment center or the camp. When the recruits try on, the manager scans the label with a scanner and enters the information such as the size, color and style of combat uniforms suitable for the recruits into the computer, and the computer transmits the information to the defense soldier security center, and then the center transmits it to the clothing company, which is used to make production plans. Will radio frequency recognition technology application in such as clothing, medicine and other items of the issue, the past need many steps to complete the procedure can be completed once, both saves manpower and improves the efficiency.