VeriSign, Alien Technologies, and E. Smith Consulting have been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to conduct an RFID pilot program at Wright Patterson Medical Center to improve process efficiencies and patient care. The program will test using passive RFID tags to better track important medical supplies and devices. If successful, the Department of Defense expects this pilot could help improve inventory management and help ensure medical staff have quick access to clean and calibrated equipment across the military healthcare network.

1. VeriSign, Alien Technologies, and E.
Smith Consulting Team Awarded United
States Air Force RFID Pilot Contract
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and DAYTON, OH (Marketwire) - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:
VRSN), the leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, Alien
Technology Corporation, and E. Smith Consulting LCC, a woman-owned small
business, today announced that the team has been awarded a contract to manage an
innovative Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) pilot with the U.S. Air Force Surgeon
General's office. Based at Wright Patterson Medical Center (WPMC), this pilot program
will test the ability to improve process efficiencies and patient care services by utilizing
passive RFID technology to better manage and to track important patient movement
items (PMI) and medical devices within an Air Force medical facility.
"This program is an important building block that the DoD can leverage as it continues
to pursue Total Asset Visibility (TAV) strategies," said Doug Natal, VeriSign vice
president. "The continued expansion of RFID projects by the Department of Defense is
consistent with what we're seeing across a number of industries as we help leaders
deploy the technology and reap the benefits of much more efficient asset management."
Based on the results of the U.S. Air Force pilot, the DoD expects to evaluate potential
benefits that would positively impact inventory, asset, and supply chain management.
These benefits may include:
— Improvements in caregiver access to
clean, calibrated critical patient
movement items and medical devices; —
Improved efficiencies in locating and maintaining this
equipment; — Reduced inventory
requirements due to improved visibility into medical
equipment location and status.
This pilot presents a unique opportunity to prove the value of an emerging
technology within a hospital environment and to form the foundation for future
deployment models across the DoD Medical support network. Once
deployment expands to additional locations, visibility of the DoD's medical
device inventory will generate value for centralized decision making.

2. "We are delighted at the opportunity to collaborate with the Air Force and industry
leaders to validate the inherent benefits of passive RFID within the hospital setting,"
said Susan Pearson, vice president of alliances for Alien Technology. "The RFID
Solutions Center in Dayton, Ohio is ideally suited to stage, to test, and to optimize this
system prior to the live hospital test, ensuring seamless integration to hospital
operations."
This is the second Department of Defense (DoD) RFID contract award that VeriSign has
been a part of. VeriSign was also awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) under the Group 4-Electronic Product Code (EPC)
Technical Engineering Services portion of DoD's Passive RFID EPC-1 program. The
company's experience also includes more than 50 RFID-enablement projects, many of
these done on behalf of consumer goods manufacturers responding to Wal-Mart's RFID
mandate.
According to market research firm, INPUT, the Department of Defense is the largest
adopter of RFID [in the public sector] to date. The firm has forecasted that the DoD total
RFID budget is expected to grow from $115 million in FY 2006 to $215 million in FY
2011(1).
VeriSign provides comprehensive RFID Consulting services to the public sector,
consumer goods, retail and healthcare industries, helping leaders in these markets
leverage RFID data to drive more effective promotion management, new product
introduction and improved inventory management. In addition, through the recent
acquisition of inCode Telecom Group, Inc., VeriSign has expanded its set of RFID
offerings to include several solutions targeted at the Manufacturing and Distribution
sectors. With regulatory compliance issues and asset management becoming of
increasing importance in multiple industries, more and more organizations are looking to
VeriSign's Enterprise Solutions group to offer a single point of expertise for RFID
technologies, products, and services.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), operates digital infrastructure services that enable
and protect billions of interactions every day across the world's voice and data
networks. Additional news and information about the company is available
at www.verisign.com.
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athttp://www.verisign.com/publicsector.

3. About the RFID Solutions Center
The RFID Solutions Center Dayton, a division of Alien Technology Corporation, is
dedicated to driving RFID technology innovation and adoption of RFID solutions
worldwide through collaboration with RFID end-users, key participants in the RFID
industry, and academic institutions focused on RFID research and application.
Infrastructure and equipment at the center enable technical services and applications
engineering teams to simulate key stages in "real world" supply chains, and work
closely with RFID customers to evaluate, design, specify, and deploy RFID systems.
The center's simulated environment, which includes shipping dock doors, material
handling equipment and conveyors, shipping stations, a store backroom and a retail
store floor, offers a comprehensive engineering laboratory and educational RFID
environment. More information regarding the RFID Solutions Center is available
at www.rfidsolutionscenter.com.