U.S. Marine Partners With Adobe Acrobat For Mission Communications
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that the U.S. Marine Corps has chosen Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro to be its main Web conferencing tool and technology solution. The announcement which was made yesterday by Adobe, mentions that the strategic partnership between the military and the tech company allows for "a tactical battlefield collaboration tool for deployed troops." Acrobat Connect Pro can be utilized for the Marines to communicate securely and more efficiently everywhere in the world.
The license contract - which is priced at $9.5 million - was provided by Carahsoft Technology Corp. Through this contract, the Marines will be able to immediately access and integrate Acrobat Connect Pro as part of "version 1.5 of its Tactical Collaboration Work Suite." The work suite is a portable data cernter that provides "robot, highly available, highly scalable collaboration and hosting capabilities to deployed forces," as reported in businesswire.com.
Senior Vice President of Adobe's Business Productivity Business Unit, Rob Tarkott said, "Some of the world's most secure organizations in financial services, life sciences, and government -- including the U.S. Department of Defense -- have turned to Acrobat Connect Pro as a real-time collaboration solution. It not only meets the government's highest security standards, but also enables increased efficienty and communication across networks. From planning to execution to debrief, Connect Pro can help the Marine Corps streamline information exchange and keep troops safe in mission-critical deployments."
Businesswire.com reported, "The Marine Corps cited several factors for adopting Acrobat Connect Pro as its collaboration solution. In addition to meeting stringent standards for security, availability and quality, the solution is Joint Interoperability and Test Command Certified, so troops and military leaders can connect quickly across any Department of Defense (DoD) network. Also, because Acrobat Connect Pro simply requires that users have Adobe Flash® Player, which is already installed on DoD computers and 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops, it can be deployed in the field for reliable collaboration in extremely low-bandwidth environments and intermittent connectivity."
President of Carahsoft Technologies, Corp., Craig P. Abod, said, "We are honored to continue supporting the DoD in its procurement and adoption of Adobe's enterprise collaboration solutions. Adobe and Carahsoft also provide Web conferencing capabilities to DoD users worldwide through Defense Connect Online, and we recently were awarded a DoD Enterprise Software Initiative blanket purchase agreement for Adobe server products through which the Marine Corps placed its order."