raytheon – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:44:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Android gets tapped for military use https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/10/24/android-gets-tapped-for-military-use/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:44:08 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=2162 Military defense contractor Raytheon is apparently as interested in Android as the rest of us. The company has created an application that works like a mashup between a buddy list and Google Maps, giving users the ability to locate “buddies” anywhere on the battlefield. The system, called Raytheon Android Tactical System (RATS), was developed on […]

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]]> G1 google maps.Military defense contractor Raytheon is apparently as interested in Android as the rest of us. The company has created an application that works like a mashup between a buddy list and Google Maps, giving users the ability to locate “buddies” anywhere on the battlefield.

The system, called Raytheon Android Tactical System (RATS), was developed on Android for the openness of the platform. Raytheon sees RATS expanding to uses like biometric scanning and off-site suspect identification. By developing on Android, Raytheon was also able to keep the cost of the software down. Think a couple hundred dollars per user, versus the typical tens of thousands per mobile terminal, something taxpayers are sure to be happy with.

Source: Forbes

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