Context
The Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named, ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application) which is a new generation, state of the art, web based application developed entirely in-house by a team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army.
Important facts about the App
- ASIGMA is a new generation, state of the art, web based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army.
- The application is being deployed on the Army’s internal network as a replacement of Army Wide Area Network (AWAN) messaging application which has been in service for the past 15 years.
- The application has been fielded on Army owned hardware and lends itself to lifetime support with future upgrades.
- It has a variety of contemporary features including
- multi-level security
- message prioritisation and tracking
- dynamic global address book
- various options to meet the Army’s requirements
- This future ready messaging application will meet real time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army, especially in the backdrop of the current geopolitical security environment and is in line with the government of India’s, Make in India initiative.
- The Indian Army has braced automation in a major way, especially post COVID-19 outbreak and is taking substantial steps towards paperless functioning.
- ASIGMA will further boost these efforts and will add to the host of other applications already being employed by the Army over its captive pan Army network.
