WASHINGTON—The U.S. Army said it will evaluate Nokia Corp.’s wireless technology for potential military and defense applications.
Nokia said it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Army, agreeing to showcase technologies including W-CDMA, GSM and WiMAX. The five-year evaluation, which is slated to begin later this year, will test devices and networks that “can potentially meet the requirements for deployed forces to have access to high-capacity throughput” of intelligence and other information.
“This arrangement will help the Army’s efforts to evaluate commercial technology for government applications and will greatly increase Nokia’s capabilities to provide its advanced technologies to large U.S. government communications projects,” said Bob Fennelly, Nokia’s director of government systems and networks.
In a separate announcement, Nokia said it has been tapped by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to supply GSM radio equipment and services as well as installation, training and management services at the INL’s Critical Infrastructure Test Range facility. The 890-square-mile site “provides full-scale testing for the performance and evaluation of both physical and network security solutions” for nuclear energy and homeland security.
