American forces press service (April 27, 2005): DAU announces the launch of Unique Identification (UID) special interest area.
The Acquisition Community Connection Web team announces the launch of their newest special interest area, Unique Identification. UID--a DoD strategic imperative--is a program to mark items owned by the Department of Defense with unique, machine-readable ma·chine-read·a·ble
adj.
Easy to feed directly into a computer, as data that have been stored magnetically.
machine-readable
Adjective
in a form suitable for processing by a computer item identifier data elements that distinguish an item from all other like and unlike items. For information and discussions on UID (programming, database) uid -
1. user identifier.
2. unique identifier - of any sort, possibly following sense 1.
Compare with SKU for sense-development. implementation including policies and references, contracting, engineering, training, and solution providers, go to the UID Web site at <https://acc.dau.mil/simplify/ev.php?ID=18058_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC>.
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