In a move that comes as a major shock to many and a merely understandable situation for others, DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is seeking to utilize its hi tech wizardry to create iPhone apps that would be of use to those in the US military. The agency formerly founded what is today known as the internet, one of its most impressive projects to date, and is the most advanced lab of computing in the defense industry and perhaps within the US government at large according to many tech experts. The agency’s stated goal when working with mobile devices and in particular the iPhone, is to explore and uncover both commercial and non commercial apps that might be useful for not only the military, but also the national security sector, as well. By leveraging existing technology in this way, the agency hopes to create programs of aid to the sector it services.
The apps would not be limited to only tactical military situations such as warfare, they would be developed for a range of other military applications such as disaster response situations, recovery efforts after a disaster as struck and humanitarian aid that goes along with large scale calamities such as Hurricane Katrina or other unforeseen tragedies which require a mobilized national response. That said, battlefield situations that would require a high level of technical information such as being able to determine ballistics calculations for snipers or serve as part of a warfighter battlefield scenario with real time information gathering are also expected to be part of the program, even extending so far as a handheld language translator.