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• The service doesn't want to "spend $2,500 to ruggedize a $200 phone," Mr. McCarthy said. Killer App: Army Tests Smartphones for Combat
• Systems participating in Advanced Warfighting Experiments should be ruggedized and easily maintainable.
• Computers are sealed in a polycarbonate cover and are ruggedized to withstand weather, temperature and physical abuse.
• However, the consortium neglected to invite hard drive vendors, who had no interest in reducing their margins even further to design ruggedized external drives.
• BBN and ARPA decided that the ruggedized Honeywell 516, reflecting too much worry about reliability, was an expression of overkill. Where Wizards Stay Up Late
• The company sells sleek drives for the fashion conscious, large-capacity drives for the memory hungry, ruggedized drives for travelers and others with built-in software for working smoothly with traditional email software.
• Systems integration is what will make blue force tracking much greater than the sum total of all the ruggedized laptops we manage to bolt into our tanks and trucks.
• It would rather make minor tweaks and "ruggedize" existing phones, which as long as the phones' shapes and electronic guts aren't modified, will place them at close to retail prices, said Tony Fiuza of the Army's Communications-Electronics Research USATODAY.com News
• Detroit ruggedized the family car
• For severe operating environments, the U.S. Army's common hardware and software handlheld terminal unit (CHS HTU) may be used in place of the ruggedized laptop.