SAMSys to Provide RFID Readers to U.S. Government

Two SAMSys Resellers Awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements for DoD 
Initiative

TORONTO, May 12 /CNW/ - SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX) announced
today that two of its value-added resellers have been awarded Blanket Purchase
Agreements authorizing the use of SAMSys' new MP9320 v2.8 radio frequency
identification (RFID) reader to comply with RFID mandates from the U.S.
Department of Defense. The agreements are expected to result in the sale of at
least 700 fixed RFID readers from multiple vendors over the next year during
the first phase of a long-term initiative to implement RFID technology
throughout the DoD's supply chain.
The contracts were awarded to WFI Government Services, Inc., and CDO
Technologies, Inc., both SAMSys resellers, as part of the DoD's Passive Radio
Frequency Identification Electronic Product Code-1 (RFID EPC-1) project. The
project requires DoD suppliers to place RFID tags on all cases and pallets
containing products sold to the U.S. military. Multi-protocol passive RFID  
EPC-1 readers are needed to exchange data with the tags in order to expedite
identification and tracking of DoD supplies.
The SAMSys MP9320 v2.8 reader can be purchased from either WFI or CDO
under the portion of the project's Item Group Level 2 bid award covering fixed
RFID readers. The new SAMSys product meets all of the DoD's requirements in
the fixed reader category, including the ability to read both Class 0 and
Class 1 tags concurrently without any firmware or software changes, write to
Class 1 tags, and support the new EPC Generation Two (Gen 2) standard.
With these capabilities, DoD users who select SAMSys readers will be able
to choose RFID tags from a variety of vendors, migrate to the new Gen 2
standard as those tags become available, and utilize Gen 2 tags alongside
existing legacy installations.
"The Department of Defense has enormous warehouses with a total of tens
of thousands of dock doors, and eventually every one of those doors is going
to need a fixed RFID reader," said Cliff Horwitz, chairman, CEO and president
of SAMSys Technologies Inc. "These contracts therefore pave the way for both
short-term sales and long-term revenue opportunities with the DoD."
The contracts authorizing DoD agencies to purchase SAMSys readers from
WFI and CDO were awarded by the Army Contracting Agency Information
Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center (ITEC4).
WFI Government Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wireless
Facilities, Inc., (www.wfinet.com), a San Diego-based independent provider of
systems engineering, network services and technical outsourcing. RFID is one
of the company's chief areas of expertise, with complete RFID services that
leverage the firm's functional understanding of the supply chain and logistics
processes with its core competency in data integration and synchronization.
CDO Technologies (www.cdotech.com) is a Dayton-based IT professional
services company with core expertise in automatic identification and data
capture including RFID solutions. The firm has installed AIDC solutions at
over 2,700 sites representing more than 200,000 users, and has a broad client
base in the government, commercial and academic sectors.

About SAMSys Technologies Inc.:
SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SAMSys), founded in 1995, is a world-leading
provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) hardware solutions and RFID
integration consulting services. SAMSys offers a family of products to
simplify the installation and ensure the ongoing performance of the overall
RFID hardware infrastructure. SAMSys is a public company whose shares are
listed for trading on the TSX Exchange under the symbol: "SMY". The Company
has a total of 47.6 million shares outstanding. Visit SAMSys at www.samsys.com
and www.investorfile.com.
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