You never thought you’d see Steve Jobs’ name in the same sentence as the US Army’s next-generation rifle, but that’s what’s happening today after the project manager for the rifle’s design apparently spoke of it as “Steve Jobs and his engineers trying to convert the iPod Touch to the first 3G iPhone.”

Google’s Android mobile operating system could be about to score a massive new group of users, if Wired are to be believed. The claim is that a new wartime smartphone is being tested by the US Army, dubbed Joint Battle Command Platform.