XIO Strategies Inc., a supply chain management and communications consulting firm, announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by Northrop Grumman to provide active RFID consulting services to the US Department of Defense under their RFID III contract, a multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a $429 M ceiling available for task orders.

XIO teamed with prime contractor Northrop Grumman, as well as with Evigia Systems Inc., Onyx Government Services Inc. and CYTEC Software Systems Inc. in support of the effort. Work on the contract will be conducted over a three-year base period with up to seven, one-year option years. Under the terms of the contract, XIO will provide technical RFID consulting services.

“The RFID III contract award enables an expanded role for XIO in advancing the deployment of RFID across the Department of Defensem,” said XIO Strategies’ President and CEO Mary Ann Wagner. “Each day we see the lasting benefits that RFID can bring to DoD through streamlined supply chain operations, and this contract presents another great opportunity to enable just that type of process improvement.”