New App Lets Sailors Use Phones for Personal Use

The Navy has green lighted a plan that allows sailors to stop carrying their work and personal phones. Navy leaders authorized mobile software for Defense Department-issued phones that will separate a user's official calls, messages and images from their personal ones. Newly issued devices, starting with Apple's iPhone 5S and 6 models running IOS 8, will utilize systems developed by Good Technology that segregate official business uses of the phone and securing it with enhanced encryption and passwords, according to the Navy's April 21 announcement. For more details, see this Defensetech article.