Friday March 12, 2010
DARPA wants iPhone and Android apps for soldiers
The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for projects aimed at developing apps and an App Store for Android and the iPhone OS. The agency is looking to deliver some apps to the American soldier to help battlefield, humanitarian, and disaster recovery missions, including command and control, mission planning, surveillance, reconnaissance, and language translation.
Of course, soldiers in the field will have trouble getting a network signal in Kabul, much less a data signal for downloading apps. DARPA already has plans for the military to bring their own towers, light-weight base stations to create a "secure mobile tactical network compatible with commercial smartphones". War getting you down? There’s an app for that.
Source: Engadget
