William Matthews writes the military service seeks to identify a cheaper, quicker offering comparable to the Pentagonâs mobile phone system that uses policy-based secure partitions or âcontainersâ that control what applications can run in the environment.
The Marines said they will decide on a smartphone system that can provide military-grade security, with expectations of $66 in yearly fees per device.
This is $22 less than the Defense Departmentâs mobile device management program, which Defense Information Systems Agency said amounts to annual costs of $88 for access to unclassified networks and more than $1,500 for classified networks.