Colleagues,
As reported in Defense Systems ...Smart-phone applications are part of everyday life, and the Army and
other military branches have said those applications also will be a part of service life...
...The next major demonstration of how handheld devices, such as
Apple
iPhones, Research in Motion BlackBerries and
Motorola Droids, can run Army specific applications will occur in June when engineers from the Army
Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) integrate about a dozen smart devices into the
Product Manager Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance On-the-Move Event 10 (E10) at Fort Dix, N.J...
...... Last year’s
C4ISR OTM exercise was the Army’s largest-ever C4ISR and
networking technology demonstration, and this year’s exercise supports efforts to achieve brigade combat team modernization in 2013 to 2014. Handheld devices and battle command applications will be part of that future force network, and E10 will provide a firsthand look at how these different systems interact in an on-the-move environment...
...“With smart, handheld devices, the Army wants to develop the
capability to push down situational awareness and relevant information directly to dismounted soldiers,” said
Ron Szymanski, a computer scientist at CERDEC's Command and Control Directorate. “You take a
commercial handheld device like an iPhone or an Android phone and throw it in a pocket, and you don’t even know it’s there. It doesn’t slow you down. It is not like strapping a hardened laptop and everything that goes with it onto your back."...
...The push to take a closer look at commercial handheld technologies
came in mid-2009 when senior Army leaders, such as
Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli and
Chief Information Officer Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, began to push for use of handheld devices and applications on the battlefield...
Read on at:
http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2010/06/07/C4ISR-1-CERDEC-handhe...ENJOY!
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