SOLDIERS THAT are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan with the First U.S. Army Brigade are to get smartphones to improve front-line communications. The phones will be tethered to a digital radio to mark the locations of roadside bombs, share intelligence, and send text messages, Military.com reports. The system gives soldiers patrolling on foot or riding in vehicles a similar level of connectivity as their counterparts back at headquarters.
Col. Mark Elliott, who oversees development of the Army's tactical network, said: “This is just in time for a retrograde mission,” he said, referring to the process of removing military equipment from an operating area. “We're pulling cables out of buildings because we're trying to turn the lights out.”
The equipment includes smartphones such as the Motorola Atrix running Google Inc.'s Android software; handheld AN/PRC-154 Rifleman Radios; portable AN/PRC-117G Falcon III radios and satellite dishes.
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