470,000 BlackBerrys, is distancing itself from the
struggling vendor while moving ahead with
construction of a department wide app store and a
system for securing all mobile devices, including the
latest iPhones, iPads, and Samsung smartphones and
tablets. Just two months ago, when BlackBerry
announced the company would radically curtail
commercial sales, Pentagon officials said their business
partnership remained unaffected. ... A 2012 strategy to
transition personnel from PCs to smartphones and
tablets did not favor any one device maker ... "This
multi-vendor, device-agnostic approach minimizes the
impact of [a] single vendor to our current operations,"
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Damien Pickart said.
Implementation of the strategy centers on a "mobile
device management" system to track handhelds that
touch military networks so that they do not
compromise military information or corrupt Defense
systems.'"
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