Military Smartphones and Handheld Devices

As more and more tactical, business, and social media capabilities migrate to smartphones and handheld devices, OSD and the Services have been tasked with finding a way to permit these capabilities to flourish and expand while ensuring that security and warfighter protection are maintained and enhanced. Results from recent Army experiments with providing smartphones on the battlefield via the Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA) initiative have proven the “utility of using smartphones across a full spectrum of military operations and domains with great results,” providing the opportunity to change how soldiers communicate, learn, and perform their mission.

Speaker and Presenter Information

■ Rear Admiral Robert Day Jr., USCG
Assistant Commandant, C4IT, Director, US Coast Guard Cyber (CG-6)

■ Mr. Michael McCarthy
Director, Operations, US Army Brigade Modernization Command

■ Mr. Jeffrey Witsken
Chief, Network Integration Branch, US Army Combined Arms Center, Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA), Mission Command Center of Excellence (MCCoE)

■ Mr. Gregory Youst
Chief Mobility Engineer, Technology and Integration Division, CTO Office, DISA

■ Ms. Margaret Salter
Technical Director, Information Assurance Directorate, National Security Administration

■ Mr. Julius Knapp
Chief Engineer, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission

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