MrSeb writes "DARPA has a problem on its hands: Satellites, unmanned drones (UAVs), and myriad other pandemic sensors are now so everywhere and omnipotent that the tract of Defense (DOD) doesn't indeed know how to make the best use of them. In other words, the implements is there, but the windows isn't. To tackle this particularly tricky issue, DARPA is looking for smartphone app developers to help build 'sophisticated, adaptive applications.' Yes, DARPA wants to give smartphone developers access to the DOD's fleet of Hellfire missile-equipped UAVs. Instead of using a single, remote pilot to fly just one UAV, DARPA imagines 'an app [...] that allows a swarm of small deployed UAVs to be anesthetic drug as a single unit (a hive [mind] so to speak).' DARPA also wants app developers to help out with easy-to-use app interfaces, novel uses of smartphone-like sensors (accelerometers, cameras, gyros) — and ultimately, it wants to make a War Market where a soldier can simply log in with his DOD-issued smartphone or tablet and program Angry UAVs, Nuke Ninja, and other battlefield apps."

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