US Air Force Might Purchase Up to 18,000 Tablets ⇥

Where by “tablets” they probably mean iPads, as Dante D’Orazio notes:

It’s not clear which tablet will fill the order, though the AMC does specify that it’ll be either an iPad 2 or equivalent device.

Why the iPad 2? When a separate Air Force division announced it was buying 2,861 of Apple’s second generation tablet in December, it said that it needed something that worked with two iOS-only apps and had at least 64GB of internal memory — something few competitors can offer.