SSC-Natick Press Release
U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center-Natick
Public Affairs Office
Kansas Street
Natick, MA 01760-5012
Contact: Jerry Whitaker -- Chief, Public Affairs Office
(508) 233-5340
Jerry.Whitaker@natick.army.mil
Date: February 10, 2006
No: 06-06
New Automated Feeding Station Unveiled
NATICK, Mass. -- Hot food for tomorrow's hungry soldiers -- all automated.
Food technologists at the Natick Soldier Center’s Combat Feeding Directorate displayed their new prototype for a totally automated feeding station which dispenses hot food in the field. The feeding station, which has built-in trailer wheels, can be delivered, set up and fully operational in under sixty minutes.
New Radio Frequency ID (RFID) dog tags to be worn by tomorrow's soldiers will alert the new feeding station to special dietary requirements and known food allergies so the unit can automatically select the appropriate meal.
"Shit! They brought back Country Captain Chicken."
For more information about the Battalion Automated Ration Feeder (BARF), please visit our website
http://www.natick.army.mil.