The US Army are considering introducing a smartphone to the basic kit for soldiers, to make life on the battlefield easier. The speaker of US Army is said that the military is carrying out testing of smart phones in the field. And it will make a piece of equipment in a soldier’s clothing bag.
Smartphones are currently in testing mode in the garrison and school house but future testing will see the deployment of the devices in war zones. Another project will see special card readers given to soldiers to allow secure access to data on smartphones. The aim is to change how soldiers access knowledge, information, training content and operational data.
If soldiers can combine all this information into one permanent content stream via mobile device it could change the way soldiers work and learn.
Near in 2011, February, the Army plans to begin fielding phones, network equipment and applications to the first Army brigade to be modernized under the brigade combat team modernization program. The Army probably won't develop its own phone or do much to alter the commercial phones it buys. Smartphones would enable soldiers to use real-time intelligence data as well as video from the military’s vast repitoire of unmanned systems in the air.
However, as the report noted, the Army has to secure the phones, their data, and the network before they can be used out in the field. And now in February, 2011 the US Army is being digital-soldier Army.
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