Soon, the US Army will deploy its own store mobile app. Nicknamed the military market, it has the 17 Android and 16 iPhone apps.
Applications are designed to help soldiers to accomplish tasks related to the army every day, and they were created by the troops themselves during applications for assistance from the army last year. Apps included in the store have a wide range of purposes. There is a guide to training, for the disaster relief application that allows users to create, edit, and search Google Earth maps and another that allows soldiers to connect with the army's command post software to learn where shootings and attacks occur in the bomb.
The market of the army is also intended to encourage the development of new applications. On a forum on the market, the members of the army will be able to discuss potential applications. For example, someone could suggest an application that would help to call a strike of air and on the forum, the soldiers and possible application developers, talking about what could could look like.
Ideally, the army wants that these future applications to be developed in-house, but otherwise, it would open the contract for third-party developers. The idea is that apps would come on the market of the army quickly, at an affordable price.
"He would use a software development process agile, to close with the seller and attempt to quickly turn these applications around", Lt. Col. Gregory Motes, head of Mobile Applications Branch army, says Wired's Danger Room. "The current software development process [in the Army] is a very long and arduous process." This is how we do things. "But app development must be done very quickly."
The military market is not open to the public. It is set to be hosted on the secure server of the Ministry of defence and access requires a user name and password. Finally soldiers may access via a native application too, possibly preloaded on the Android smartphone that the army is currently the point.
There is a challenge, however, when it comes to security. Wired notes that the army has not yet released device for processing data from its secure networks. However, if all the details of the fall in place, the market of the army will launch in August.
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