The Air Force plans to purchase additional iPads that will be used for flight management and as sources of reference for flight crews. In a request for proposals, the Air Force said it wants 2,725 third-generation iPads to be used as electronic flight bags. The 64 gigabyte, Wi-Fi only devices will replace reference books and [...]
The Air Force is contemplating using cloud computing as it is set to shift one million unclassified network users from desktops to thin clients, NextGov reports. The Air Force Space Command, the branch’s service network manager, said last month it was considering moving to thin or zero clients. Those clients store applications on remote servers instead [...]
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