Pilot Program Evaluating Personal Tablet Device Use Across Campus

Abstract

After the introduction of Apple's iPad in 2010, there was natural interest among leaders of the Army's education system to evaluate the potential of tablets running Smartphone operating systems for training support in military classrooms. With Soldiers' ongoing development of mobile applications at Fort Gordon, MG Alan R. Lynn, commanding general and Mr. Joe Capps, then deputy to the commanding general of the Signal Center of Excellence, worked in collaboration with MG Mark Bowman from the Army CIO/G6 to acquire 150 tablet devices for the SIGCoE's mobile computing pilot program. An additional 150 tablets were acquired for the parallel pilot program at the U. S. Military Academy. Both programs were given the restriction that the devices would not connect to the Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA564966

Entities

People

  • Chris Braunstein
  • Gregory Motes

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Electronic Mail
  • Local Area Networks
  • Mobile Application Software
  • Mobile Computing
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Smartphones
  • Social Networking Services
  • Students
  • Tablet Computers
  • Training

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