PDAs Take To The High Seas

摘要

Many of the ships in today's U.S. Navy house all the conve-niences of small-town America. For example, the USS McFaul, one of the newest and most sophisticated destroyers in the Atlantic fleet, is equipped with advanced weapons, missile, and antisubmarine warfare systems—and its own post office. Home to a crew of 330 for months at a time, it also has dining, banking, ATM, laundry, and shopping facilities, as information," says Mike Gray, deputy CIO for the Atlantic Fleet's Naval Service Force, based in Norfolk, Va. "Everything comes electronically, and the ship has limited portals to all this information."