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Well if you actually read the article and click on the link to gdi's website, you should get this link:

http://www.gd-itronix.com/index.cfm?page=Products:gd300

on which it says:
"With the Android-based operating system, the GD300 easily accommodates current and emerging applications or 'apps' for warfighters, first responders or commercial field service users."

So, they DO make android products. As to whether it is a SCAM: that may still be the case; I have no idea as to what the ratio is between MS products and Android products.
 

Custom hardware and ROMs have already been done for the Military.

http://www.gd-itronix.com/upload/specifications/us/GD300_datasheet_080210.pdf

If you want the absolute best then go military spec. Husky has been making water,disaster proof computers for years. Looks like they were bought.

http://www.gd-itronix.com/index.cfm?page=Products:Duo-Touch_II

I carried a Itronix Duo-Touch II for a few months during field-work. It is a very robust tablet and is pretty much everything-proof (other than driving over it with a truck).

http://www.gd-itronix.com/index.cfm?page=Products:Duo-Touch_II

It is pricey as Itronix was purchased by General Dynamics but is mil rated.

I dunno man, I'd rather buy a notebook from a company that knows how to make things rugged, verses a company that makes VCR's and questionable quality audio products.

Your choice is a small form factor or a DVD R/W media bay.

MR-1
4.5"x6.1"x 1.4", weighs 2 lbs
There isn't even form factor space for a media bay, but it does come with a 40 GB hard drive; 80 GB HD or 32 GB SSD optional.

XR-1
Media Bay: DVD-RW/CD-RW

Cost?
MR-1: starting at $4,295
XR-1: starting at $3,908

A laptop of any variety will be a non-trivial theft risk in the situation you're describing. It's your choice to get a cheap, throw-away item that you have to try to replace mid-way through the trip, at questionable cost, or an expensive, reliable item that might actually survive the trip intact.

Hopefully, you aren't taking the same "replace it in the field" mindset with the rest of your gear.

Your choice is a small form factor or a DVD R/W media bay.

MR-1
4.5"x6.1"x 1.4", weighs 2 lbs
There isn't even form factor space for a media bay, but it does come with a 40 GB hard drive; 80 GB HD or 32 GB SSD optional.

XR-1
Media Bay: DVD-RW/CD-RW

Cost?
MR-1: starting at $4,295
XR-1: starting at $3,908

A laptop of any variety will be a non-trivial theft risk in the situation you're describing. It's your choice to get a cheap, throw-away item that you have to try to replace mid-way through the trip, at questionable cost, or an expensive, reliable item that might actually survive the trip intact.

Hopefully, you aren't taking the same "replace it in the field" mindset with the rest of your gear.

The toughbooks have the mindshare, but the Mercedes of rugged laptops is IMHO the Itronix GoBook XR-1. (disclaimer: I work for General Dynamics.) But unless you're planning on taking this aboard a bouncing Stryker in desert heat or into a swamp in combat situations, any "MIL-STD 810F"-ruggedized laptop is almost certainly overkill.

For an office environment, the consumer/business laptops are all basically made by the same people at the same facilities out of the same parts these days. Get whichever one has the features you need at the price you like with the plastic shaped the way you think looks good.