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Ranger Deployed to Afghanistan

Posted by: Guest

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Guest
The Pentagon is issuing TDS Ranger handhelds to troops in Afghanistan this month. These handhelds, with specialized software and hardware, will be used as mobile lie detectors in the field. Known by the acronym PCASS, Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, the device uses the TDS Ranger with three wires that connect

Uncle Sam wants you - and a Nomad

Posted by: Eric Olson

Tagged in: Ranger , Outdoor Rugged , Nomad , Military , Federal

Eric Olson
You may have noticed all Trimble rugged handheld computers meet MIL-STD-810F, the military standard for drops, vibration, humidity, altitude and extreme temperatures. Well, there's good reason for that: the military is one of the major markets for rugged handhelds.

The Nomad had been shown at military tradeshows giving government and industry representatives the opportunity to discuss best practices and government implementations of commercial technologies.

At these shows, I have been busy demonstrating several capabilities of the Nomad, including many of the focus technologies:




In a previous post Terraine workers shared their experiences with the Yuma. Read the first part if you haven't already and pick up here where it left off:

But even more importantly, our scientists interacted with them well in the field. 

The software application we built for this is called EnvironPro.  It inventories wells, stores water levels, water sampling events, purgings and other readings that our scientists used to collect on paper.


Terraine, Inc. has worked for years on groundwater sampling for the US Navy at a variety of sites all over the country. One particular location is the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida.

The Navy ran a dry cleaning operation there for decades (those uniforms don’t clean themselves) and a good deal of contaminants leaked into the local water table. Since the training center was closed, the US Navy has worked tirelessly to clean up the area and keep track of the remediation efforts undertaken by its contractors (us and our partners).


More interviews with Integrated Resource Management about how the Ranger is critical to having an efficient process for capturing forestry inventory data.


Interview with Marc Barnes, president of Integrated Resource Management (IRM) of Philomath, Oregon. IRM is a provider of forest management services since 1993. IRM also developed


The power and dependability of Windows 7, combined with the Yuma rugged tablet, means field workers can take their office to the field. With Windows 7, the Yuma offers faster sleep and resume capabilities, proven data privacy and security, and enhanced networking capabilities.

The versatile Yuma, a fully functional rugged computer with connectivity, brings full office capabilities to the field. It is used


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