DARPA to build military App Store, battlefield 3G
Mar 04
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DARPA to build military App Store, battlefield 3G
Android wins war for battle phones, iPhone and MS lose
By Lewis Page
Posted in Mobile, 4th March 2010 11:40 GMT
Not content with merely soliciting bids for smartphone apps useful to the military “and the national security community more generally”, the Pentagon’s tech hothouse now plans something resembling a military App Store – and has unveiled plans to deploy civilian mobile coverage onto the battlefield.
In an announcement issued yesterday, DARPA added to its recent “Mobile Apps for the Military” plan by outlining a further “Transformative Apps” scheme. First on the war-boffins’ shopping list is their own App Store, or something very like one:
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