Raytheon, the military contractor, announced an iPhone application that tracks soldiers -- friend and foe -- on the battlefield.
He said the US has tracked soldiers moving in, setting up and firing the weapons, just before which a warning went out to regime soldiers to don gas masks and prepare for a chemical strike.
A third possible target market is the defence industry — it's not hard to see use-cases around tracking soldiers' stress levels and mental well-being, for instance.
The independent review group found zero effort to track how soldiers were doing in rehabilitation.
The military uses wireless sensor networks to keep track of soldiers in the field, and civilians utilize it for everything from bank transactions to cell phone communication.
The future of on-the-ground military connectivity is a hot item these days; the systems used to keep track of soldiers, send secure communications, and so on, are showing their age… and weight.
A number of objects and gadgets can be found along the way to aid in this, including motion detectors to track hostile soldiers, and the Metal Gear series' trademark cardboard box, which Snake can hide under to avoid visual detection.
