Android Goes To the Battlefield

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 24, 2009 @04:23AM from the not-the-terminator-kind dept.

wiseandroid writes "Google's mobile operating system Android has won plenty of adherents among cellphone makers and gadget manufacturers since its 2007 debut. Now defense contractor Raytheon is preparing it for a more urgent mission: saving lives in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan. Using Android software tools, Raytheon engineers have built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list. Raytheon calls the entire framework the Raytheon Android Tactical System, or RATS for short. Mark Bigham, a vice president of business development in Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems unit, says the company selected Android because its open source nature made developing applications easy."

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Re:Saving lives?? by ducomputergeek · 2009-10-24 06:09 · Score: 4, Informative

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

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