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Army Develops Android-Based Framework For Battlefield Ops

Posted by Soulskill on from the smart-phones-and-smart-bombs dept.

gabbo529 writes "The United States Army is developing an Android-based smartphone framework and suite of applications for tactical operations. With the marriage between technology and military continuing to strengthen, more soldiers are getting phones for on-the-field operations. Already, the military has developed the Joint Battle Command-Platform, or JBC-P Handheld, which has an app that can be used to mark warning signals to future soldiers."

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  1. Question by rlp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Question for those who know about such things - wouldn't the RF emissions from a phone of the battlefield give away information about troop locations and deployment?

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    1. Re:Question by couchslug · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Modern battlefields are saturated with RF. If required for stealth ops in nation-state war equipment can be turned off.

      In non-nation-state war ease of communication and the very short value of most data make convenient comms useful.

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  2. so... by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So Google will be tracking all of our military assets as well as our citizens? Awesome.