“Apps for the Army” Competition
The U.S. Army is reaching out to increase its technology applications-and they need your help.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, Army Chief Information Officer/G-6, recently announced an “Apps for the Army” competition for the .mil community. Sorenson seeks to harness the untapped potential of the .mil community and reduce the time it takes to develop new technology for the Army.
“Apps for the Army will help unleash and showcase the creative capabilities of the .mil community while producing applications of real value to the warfighter,” said Sorenson.
The goal of the competition is to empower the Army community and others to develop new applications all while giving that same community the ability to rate and test the utility of the applications themselves.
Further details regarding the process and collaboration methods will be released by the end of September. So for all you technology savvy .mil folks, keep on the lookout for more information about how your application could be the next big hit for the U.S. Army.
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Does “Apps for the Army” possibly mean iPhone apps? There is a lot of untapped potential in regards to recruitment when it comes to the iPhone or iPod Touch. I would love to hear more about this hopefully we’ll see something soon! I’m just surprised there aren’t games from the Go Army site on the iPhone platform! There is almost no reason that these games (http://www.goarmy.com/downloads/games.jsp) shouldn’t be ported over, I’m sure you guys could find an iPhone developer!
Where can I find more details about this app contest? Is the app contest for mobile device, for computers or is it web-based?
Jeff from FightMusic
Those interested in participating can visit:
http://www.army.mil/ciog6/armyapps
and collaborate here:
https://www.kc.army.mil/book/groups/apps-for-the-army-d
I don’t care about winning, but if the Army switched their messaging/communications to Voice Mobility International, they would reap big benefits from those operations.