DARPA wants military App Store for Android, 3G for battlefieldsDARPA wants military App Store for Android, 3G for battlefields

We've written about "war apps" before, but now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, is getting down to the specifics on what it wants to see when it comes to marrying advanced consumer phones to the military. In an announcement yesterday, the agency made clear what it'd want a military app store landscape to look like:

DARPA is seeking applications to fill a diverse set of needs, including the tactical battlefield, humanitarian missions, disaster recovery, and other mission areas. Example functionalities include command and control, reporting, mission planning, intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance, real-time collaboration, geospatial visualization, analysis, language translation, training, and logistics tracking. Special attention must be paid to the apps' user interfaces and usability functions, as well as striving towards general simplicity and ease-of-use.

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