iPads, Android Tablets And Smartphones Join The Military -- Computer World
Contractors build military apps for use with cheaper, consumer-grade devices.
Computerworld - Shooting turtles or attacking enemy warplanes with game apps on an iPad is child's play compared to the apps two military contractors are planning for use with low-cost, consumer-grade tablets and smartphones.
For example, Harris, a Pentagon contractor with experience in commercial broadcast video products, is working on an app for Apple's iPad and other tablets that will allow a soldier on the ground to use touchscreen gestures to remotely move a camera aboard an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to find enemy weapons or troops, while watching what the camera sees on the tablet. The video information, combined with data about location and time, can be quickly transmitted using Harris video technology to a network manned by intelligence commanders around the globe who could make quick decisions about military targets.
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Update #1: Contractors Build Military Apps for iPads, Android Tablets and Smartphones -- IT Business Edge
Update #2: Android app for military drone control in the works -- Android Community
Update #3: Military Once Again Turning to Android for Battlefield Solutions -- Phandroid
My Comment: The military is finally catching up to where everyone else is with this technology.
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