Horscrap. You've stated that the individual firearms were tracked remotely by the program.
You've cited no evidence for such a thing. You're talking about putting a retreivable receive only recording device to give information on where a crate had been once it was recovered.
Not your fault that you can't prove your assertion, really, since it's just not true. You can only be faulted for an inability to avoid mixing fiction with basic reality.
This is the danger of all these CSI/JamesBond shows training you to ignore basic technical reality.
Operation Wide Receiver vs. Operation Fast and FuriousIn 2006-2007 the ATF devised Operation Wide Receiver while Bush was in office. The purpose was to track illegal weapons into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. However, the guns all were fitted with transmitters for tracking. The amount of guns allowed to “walk” into Mexico were a quarter of the size of OFF. Only 450 were utilized and it was managed out of the Tucson office. However, like OFF, it was a failure also. The cartels figured out how to fool the trackers and sometimes when the trackers were placed in the guns they were damaged. This was a very bad idea and it certainly didn’t achieve the results they were anticipating.