Pentagon last week authorized the use of mobile devices BlackBerry and Samsung in DoD networks , a step towards the opening of the Army to a wide variety of technological equipment while still ensuring the safety of communications.
Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department authorized the use of BlackBerry 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet using your system Enterprise Service 10 as well as the Samsung Android Knox .
“This is a significant step towards the establishment of a multi-vendor environment to support a variety of devices and operating systems of latest technology,” Pickart said in a statement.
The Pentagon said Wednesday it expects also authorize Apple mobile devices that use the iOS 6 sometime in early May.
measure is expected to open the DoD networks create a scenario of increased competition for customers Pentagon between BlackBerry devices, the iPhone or iPad and units that use Google’s Android platform as phones from Samsung Electronics.
The Pentagon currently has about 600,000 smartphone users , tablets and other mobile devices. The department has 470,000 BlackBerry users, 41,000 users of Apple and Android devices 8,700 people. Most Android and Apple systems are in pilot or test programs.
measurement networks open to a greater variety of mobile devices is part of a Pentagon effort to ensure that the Army has access to the latest technology in communications, without getting locked into a particular vendor equipment.
To ensure security, mobile devices and operating systems go through a review process approved by the U.S. Defense Information Systems . Once the Guide Security Technical Implementation (STIG, for its acronym in English) is reviewed and approved, the devices can be used in the network.
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