America Army is asking upon Android app developers to assist make military life rather less stressful — and, perhaps, a whole lot safer. Under a brand new Army framework generally known as the Mobile/Handheld Computing Environment (CE), third-party developers shall be capable of create and submit tactical Android apps, using the army’s CE Product Developer’s Kit. The framework, originally prototyped by the people over at MITRE, represents the most recent phase within the Army’s ongoing campaign to include smartphone technology at the battlefield. Any app operating under the CE system shall be interoperable across all command systems, and, as you’d expect, would be tightly secured. The kit won’t be released to developers until July, however the Army has already begun tinkering with its baseline suite of Mission Command apps, which contains tools designed to facilitate mapping, blue force tracking, and Tactical Ground Reporting. At the hardware side of the equation, the military is planning to deploy a brand new handheld generally known as the Joint Battle Command-Platform, or JBC-P. The 2-pound JBC-P is basically an army-friendly smartphone designed to run on quite a lot of existing radio networks, while supporting the whole suite of forthcoming apps. The JBC-P would be tested this October, and may likely be issued on a much broader basis in 2013.
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