Nov 21
2011
By Edwin Morris,
Advanced Mobile Systems Initiative Lead
Research, Technology & System Solutions
Whether soldiers are on the battlefield or providing humanitarian relief effort, they need to capture and process a wide range of text, image, and map-based information. To support soldiers in this effort, the Department of Defense (DoD) is beginning to equip soldiers with smartphones to allow them to manage that vast array and amount of information they encounter while in the field. Whether the information gets correctly conveyed up the chain of command depends, in part, on the soldier’s ability to capture accurate data while in the field. This blog posting, a follow-up to our initial post, describes our work on creating a software application for smartphones that allows soldier end-users to program their smartphones to provide an interface tailored to the information they need for a specific mission.
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Apr 4
2011
By Edwin Morris, Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Research Technology and System Solutions
Many
people today carry handheld computing devices to support their
business, entertainment, and social needs in commercial networks. The
Department of Defense (DoD) is increasingly interested in having
soldiers carry handheld computing devices to support their mission needs
in tactical networks. Not surprisingly, however, conventional handheld
computing devices (such as iPhone or Android smartphones) for commercial
networks differ in significant ways from handheld devices for tactical
networks. For example, conventional devices and the software that runs
on them do not provide the capabilities and security needed by military
devices, nor are they configured to work over DoD tactical networks with
severe bandwidth limitations and stringent transmission security
requirements. This post describes exploratory research we are conducting
at the SEI to (1) create software that allows soldiers to access
information on a handheld device and (2) program the software to tailor
the information for a given mission or situation.
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