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Earlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple’s Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple’s products and technology in the field. In addition to having the most awesome name ever, Maj. Gen. Justice also heads the US Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He’s reportedly interested in moving the Army away from the custom-built “big green box” electronics that the Army has used over the past decades; instead, Justice wants the Army to investigate existing solutions from the commercial sector, including Apple’s portable lines.

Rather than continuing to invest heaps of money to research its own devices, Maj. Gen. Justice wants to take a different approach: leveraging the knowledge and research of the commercial sector into the Army’s portable equipment. This approach makes perfect sense for a number of reasons. Companies like Apple have already laid a lot of the groundwork for developing durable and easily portable devices, and their devices provide multiple functions with an extremely easy-to-use interface.

Thanks to TUAW reader Ryan for the tip.

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US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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