Army, DISA partner to enable mobility for emergency service vehicles

U.S. Army Fort Bliss is set to have the first Department of Emergency Services in the Army to deploy its emergency vehicles with Apple iPad devices integrated with its computer-aided dispatch software.

FB DES configured 45 devices, which included equipping 17 police and fire vehicles with Department of Defense Mobility Unclassified Capability iPads. These lightweight mobile devices will allow emergency services to track police and fire department vehicles and will allow officers to update the status and progress of incidents while on location – a capability they did not have until now.

"We originally started working this project with the former director who wanted a way to track our police vehicles using our computer-aided dispatch software," said Sean Farrell, systems administrator, FB DES.

After ruling out several other options due to compatibility or space concerns, the department decided on iPads and reached out to the Defense Information Systems Agency's DMUC program for assistance, Farrell said.

Read more here [https://www.disa.mil/NewsandEvents/2020/Army-DISA-mobility-emergency-service-vehicles]

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