The iPad Gets Ready for War

At the annual Association of the U.S. Army confab in Washington developers are showing off applications for the military, according to a Wired report.

The above display on the iPad of a Textron Systems employee shows a map of friendly and hostile locations — the blue houses have U.S. troops in them — that soldiers can gather out in the field and send back to their command stations for further analysis. It’s running through SoldierEyes, a secure cloud that runs lots of little applets for intelligence, command-and-control and battlefield awareness, developed by two Textron subsidiaries, Overwatch and AAI.

The SoldierEyes Common Operating Picture will let soldiers monitor where friendly forces are in real time. They can also plug in an enemy's position, and it will be shared with anyone else running SoldierEyes.


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