Pentagon Struggles to Integrate Smartphones, Create Mobile Workforce

摘要

The Defense Department in 2005 took up development of a smartphone that could access both classified and unclassified networks anywhere in the world. The resultant Sectera Edge, made by General Dynamics, would have revolutionized the way military personnel - down to individual troops - access and share information. Instead, Pentagon officials got a lesson in what happens when their sluggish acquisition practices go up against the commercial market's swift innovation.