Spoločnosť Apple has made several interesting partnerships in recent years. However, the most recent will attract the general public, because Apple has just joined forces with the Pentagon and within this agreement plans Apple start producing high quality wearable devices for military purposes. A total of 162 companies and universities signed the agreement, including not only Apple, but also Boeing and Harvard. The goal is to create special military equipment that will be flexible enough to be used not only by soldiers, but also to be embedded in the outer body of the fighter. The Pentagon wants to work with companies from Silicon Valley mainly because the general public trusts the products of these companies and they have no major problems with them.
Ash had been trying to push the initiative for a long time Carter, American minidefense line: “I pushed the Pentagon to think beyond what's going on inside the five-sided building and I wanted to convince it to invest in innovation in Silicon Valley and across the country. Now we are moving forward.” The Pentagon is primarily interested in the creation of such devices that can be "stretched", so it will not be just classic ones Apple Watch, but it can easily be a technology with a flexible display as presented by Samsung. The US also wants these devices to have a bunch of sensors that would be able to monitor the health of the soldier or the status of the plane or ship they are connected to. The government plans to invest 75 million dollars in the project over the next 5 years, and partner companies will invest another 90 million. Together with contributions from the local governments of individual states, it should be more than 171 million dollars.
*Source: Reuters
