Naval War College uses Russian software for iPad course material

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http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120305_6368.php

By Bob Brewin
Nextgov
03/05/2012

The Navy's premier institution for developing senior strategic and 
operational leaders started issuing students Apple iPad tablet computers 
equipped with GoodReader software in August 2010, unaware that the 
mobile app was developed and maintained by a Russian company, 
Good.iWare, until Nextgov reported it in February.

John Roberts, who runs the iPad pilot project at the Naval War College 
in Newport, R.I., said he did not check the provenance of GoodReader 
when he decided to use the software application, a fact that "does not 
put me in the best possible light," he told Nextgov.

The Naval War College evaluated six PDF reader applications and chose 
GoodReader because of "its look and feel, capability and the fact that 
it was highly rated in the Apple app store," Roberts said. This, he 
added, should not be considered an official endorsement of GoodReader.

Asked if he might have chosen another PDF reader app if he knew 
GoodReader was developed in Russia, Roberts said he might have had 
second thoughts. The course material loaded onto iPads at the school is 
far different from mission-critical software used by the Air Force 
Special Operations Command, which planned to use GoodReader to provide 
mission security and read digital navigation charts, until it canceled 
its iPad buy last month.

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