DARPA Planning iPhone And Android App Store?
March 12th, 2010
Engadget is reporting that DARPA is looking at creating their own app store, to bring software quickly to combatants. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the research wing of the American military, and has thrown its weight behind some impressive stuff in its day (as well as some completely off the wall ideas). Two of DARPAs projects are related to smartphones: Mobile Apps for the Military (DARPA-SN-10-27), and Transformative Apps (DARPA-BAA-10-41), both of which are targeted at making apps for the iPhone and Android OS. According to Engadget, “the agency is calling for apps for battlefield, humanitarian, and disaster recovery missions, including command and control, mission planning, surveillance, reconnaissance, and language translation”.
For any budding app developers that want to skip over the currently swamped world of the Apple App Store, there’s nothing sweeter than a government contract…
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