What does APORTS stand for?

USAF RESERVE COMPONENT 80th Aerial Port Squadron The War Fighting 80th Aerial Port Squadron of the 94th Mission Support Group, 94th Airlift Wing, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, led 44 aerial ports in contributing the most deployed airmen in the Global War on Terror and was second in combined Global War on Terror and Air Expeditionary Force support.

A simple extrapolation of the costs associated with running the numerous aerial ports in the USCENTCOM area of responsibility, most of which are operated by DOD with large numbers of Guard and Reserve forces, nets our estimate of $150 million a year.

Their experience, coupled with analysis of movement data between locations with aerial ports in the Iraq theater of operations, further support the concept of a single command and control structure for the management of the distribution system.

Thus, aerial ports represent one form of virtual team.

The DOD RFID Summit for Industry will provide information on: * The Implementation Plan--review of the roadmap that targets critical distribution functions within the Defense Distribution Depots and strategic aerial ports * Scheduled implementation timeline and requirements for suppliers based on procurement methods, classes/commodities, location, and layers of packaging * Technical details on RFID technology compliance * Review of DOD Implementations and Lessons Learned * Review and Discussion of DOD Supplier Implementations and Lessons Learned * Showcase of RFID technology providers Information: www.

In CENTCOM right now, the aerial ports are very restricted on the amount of cargo processing facilities, equipment, people, and experience [because of] the threat of attack," he said.

This capability will allow the aerial ports to schedule their workloads and could be used by the Tanker Airlift Control Center to forecast and schedule use of air transports.

This application of RFID and the reading of shipment tags at the sea or aerial ports can prevent misrouted shipments prior to the ocean or air transportation segment of the supply transportation.