Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS); Radio Frequency Identification Advance Shipment Notices

SUBPART 252.2—TEXT OF PROVISIONS AND CLAUSES
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252.211-7006 Passive Radio Frequency Identification.
As prescribed in 211.275-3, use the following clause:
PASSIVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (SEP 2011)
(a) Definitions. As used in this clause—
“Advance shipment notice” means an electronic notification used to list the contents of a
shipment of goods as well as additional information relating to the shipment, such as
passive radio frequency identification (RFID) or item unique identification (IUID)
information, order information, product description, physical characteristics, type of
packaging, marking, carrier information, and configuration of goods within the
transportation equipment.
“Bulk commodities” means the following commodities, when shipped in rail tank cars,
tanker trucks, trailers, other bulk wheeled conveyances, or pipelines:
(1) Sand.
(2) Gravel.
(3) Bulk liquids (water, chemicals, or petroleum products).
(4) Ready-mix concrete or similar construction materials.
(5) Coal or combustibles such as firewood.
(6) Agricultural products such as seeds, grains, or animal feed.
“Case” means either a MIL-STD-129 defined exterior container within a palletized unit
load or a MIL-STD-129 defined individual shipping container.
“Electronic Product Code™ (EPC)” means an identification scheme for universally
identifying physical objects via RFID tags and other means. The standardized EPC
data consists of an EPC (or EPC identifier) that uniquely identifies an individual object,
as well as an optional filter value when judged to be necessary to enable effective and
efficient reading of the EPC tags. In addition to this standardized data, certain classes
of EPC tags will allow user-defined data. The EPC Tag Data Standards will define the
length and position of this data, without defining its content.
“EPCglobal®” means a subscriber-driven organization comprised of industry leaders and
organizations focused on creating global standards for the adoption of passive RFID
technology.
“Exterior container” means a MIL-STD-129 defined container, bundle, or assembly
that is sufficient by reason of material, design, and construction to protect unit
packs and intermediate containers and their contents during shipment and storage.
It can be a unit pack or a container with a combination of unit packs or
intermediate containers. An exterior container may or may not be used as a

shipping container.
“Palletized unit load” means a MIL-STD-129 defined quantity of items, packed or
unpacked, arranged on a pallet in a specified manner and secured, strapped, or fastened
on the pallet so that the whole palletized load is handled as a single unit. A palletized
or skidded load is not considered to be a shipping container. A loaded 463L System
pallet is not considered to be a palletized unit load. Refer to the Defense Transportation
Regulation, DoD 4500.9-R, Part II, Chapter 203, for marking of 463L System pallets.
“Passive RFID tag” means a tag that reflects energy from the reader/interrogator or
that receives and temporarily stores a small amount of energy from the
reader/interrogator signal in order to generate the tag response. The only acceptable
tags are EPC Class 1 passive RFID tags that meet the EPCglobal™ Class 1 Generation
2 standard.
“Radio frequency identification (RFID)” means an automatic identification and data
capture technology comprising one or more reader/interrogators and one or more radio
frequency transponders in which data transfer is achieved by means of suitably
modulated inductive or radiating electromagnetic carriers.
“Shipping container” means a MIL-STD-129 defined exterior container that meets
carrier regulations and is of sufficient strength, by reason of material, design, and
construction, to be shipped safely without further packing (e.g., wooden boxes or crates,
fiber and metal drums, and corrugated and solid fiberboard boxes).
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this clause, the Contractor shall
affix passive RFID tags, at the case- and palletized-unit-load packaging levels, for
shipments of items that—
(i) Are in any of the following classes of supply, as defined in DoD 4140.1-R,
DoD Supply Chain Materiel Management Regulation, AP1.1.11:
(A) Subclass of Class I – Packaged operational rations.
(B) Class II – Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizational
tool kits, hand tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
(C) Class IIIP – Packaged petroleum, lubricants, oils, preservatives,
chemicals, and additives.
(D) Class IV – Construction and barrier materials.
(E) Class VI – Personal demand items (non-military sales items).
(F) Subclass of Class VIII – Medical materials (excluding
pharmaceuticals, biologicals, and reagents – suppliers should limit the mixing of
excluded and non-excluded materials).
(G) Class IX – Repair parts and components including kits, assemblies
and subassemblies, reparable and consumable items required for maintenance support
of all equipment, excluding medical-peculiar repair parts; and
(ii) Are being shipped to one of the locations listed at

http://www.acq.osd.mil/log/rfid/ or to—
(A) A location outside the contiguous United States when the shipment
has been assigned Transportation Priority 1, or to—
activity:

(B) The following location(s) deemed necessary by the requiring

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(2) The following are excluded from the requirements of paragraph (b)(1) of this
(i) Shipments of bulk commodities.

(ii) Shipments to locations other than Defense Distribution Depots when the
contract includes the clause at FAR 52.213-1, Fast Payment Procedures.
(c) The Contractor shall—
(1) Ensure that the data encoded on each passive RFID tag are globally unique
(i.e., the tag ID is never repeated across two or more RFID tags and conforms to the
requirements in paragraph (d) of this clause;
(2) Use passive tags that are readable; and
(3) Ensure that the passive tag is affixed at the appropriate location on the
specific level of packaging, in accordance with MIL-STD-129 (Section 4.9.2) tag
placement specifications.
(d) Data syntax and standards. The Contractor shall encode an approved RFID tag
using the instructions provided in the EPC™ Tag Data Standards in effect at the time
of contract award. The EPC™ Tag Data Standards are available at
http://www.epcglobalinc.org/standards/
(1) If the Contractor is an EPCglobal™ subscriber and possesses a unique
EPC™ company prefix, the Contractor may use any of the identifiers and encoding
instructions described in the most recent EPC™ Tag Data Standards document to
encode tags.
(2) If the Contractor chooses to employ the DoD identifier, the Contractor shall
use its previously assigned Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) code and shall
encode the tags in accordance with the tag identifier details located at

http://www.acq.osd.mil/log/rfid/tag_data.htm . If the Contractor uses a third-party
packaging house to encode its tags, the CAGE code of the third-party packaging house
is acceptable.
(3) Regardless of the selected encoding scheme, the Contractor with which the
Department holds the contract is responsible for ensuring that the tag ID encoded on
each passive RFID tag is globally unique, per the requirements in paragraph (c)(1).
(e) Advance shipment notice. The Contractor shall use Wide Area WorkFlow
(WAWF), as required by DFARS 252.232-7003, Electronic Submission of Payment
Requests, to electronically submit advance shipment notice(s) with the RFID tag ID(s)
(specified in paragraph (d) of this clause) in advance of the shipment in accordance with
the procedures at https://wawf.eb.mil/.
(End of clause)