Department of Defense is not dropping BlackBerry, says report of iOS buy is in error
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The Department is said to be testing iOS, Android and BlackBerry and is looking to employ both smartphones and tablets. Lt. Col. Pickart said that the Department of Defense currently has over 600,000 devices in operational and pilot use. 470,000 of these are BlackBerry units; 41,000 are iOS devices and 8,700 are powered by Android.
"Our work with the U.S. Department of Defense is going well and the U.S. Department of Defense is moving forward with testing of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. We are currently working with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and anticipate Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and Security Requirement Guide (SRG) approval for the BlackBerry Device Service, BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry PlayBook by early April. BlackBerry was the first to go through the new SRG process by the Defense Department and will be the first to successfully come out of it."-BlackBerry
source: PCMag
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17 Comments
1. xperiaDROID posted on 22 Mar 2013, 07:42 10 1
Oh, 470,000 BlackBerry units? Really? (FAINTS)
3. anywherehome posted on 22 Mar 2013, 07:47 7 3
thanks God....I wouldn't imagine to have a tablet or phone (iConboard) for work
1) that is not able to copy any file
2) and open it in any app
3) and can not install company's one purpose app
without these 3 points, please, tell me, where is productivity? :)
4. JC557 posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:04 11 0
To use Angry Birds as a lesson in attack and defense?
7. Diego! posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:16 2 1
hahahaha you took a laughter from me hahaha That was fun :D
17. anywherehome posted on 23 Mar 2013, 05:14 0 0
Just kidding :-)
5. lyndon420 posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:05 3 3
Yeeeeesssss! The DoD needs to sue apple now...just because.
6. GadgetsMcGoo posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:08 5 0
Took some time before the original article here to get retracted. LOLZ. But good to see the truth gets posted even if it's delayed.
8. Topcat488 posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:30 0 0
This Story did in deed take a while to get retracted... Kinda reminds me of that there Roswell incident wit dem dang ole aliens over yonder... hehehe
9. GadgetsMcGoo posted on 22 Mar 2013, 08:35 0 0
Likely, news that don't fit their narrative actually gets a double and triple check. LOLZ.
12. ZayZay posted on 22 Mar 2013, 12:00 5 0
Not because I am not a fan of Apple, but I was pretty irritated with that report yesterday to spend our tax dollars on high end smart phones when Blackberry has been working securely for them for years. Hate me if you want. You as Amercians can spend your money on whatever phone you want, but when our tax dollars start going towards these expensive devices for reasons other than only being secure (seems a bit more pleasure or to be "cool" america) I am not ok with it. Just my opinion, let the thumbs rain down.
16. networkdood posted on 22 Mar 2013, 21:06 1 0
Makes sense as it takes how many updates for Apple to make their phone secure?
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