Indian Army Launches in-House Messaging Solution

• The Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named, ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application).
• It 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.

About ASIGMA

• ASIGMA has been developed in-line with the Government of India’s, Make in India initiative.
• The new application will meet real time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army.
• ASIGMA is a replacement of AWAN (Army Wide Area Network) application which served for 15 years..
• The new ASIGMA application is being deployed on the Army’s internal network, as a replacement of the AWAN (Army Wide Area Network) messaging application which has been in service for the past 15 years.
• The application has been sent out on Army-owned hardware and will cater to the army from this time forward, lending itself to lifetime support with future upgrades.
• The messaging application is designed to meet all futuristic requirements for the army and boasts of an enhanced user experience.
• It comes with a variety of contemporary features including multi-level security, dynamic global address book, message prioritisation, and tracking, and options to meet the requirements of the army at present.
• This future-ready messaging application will meet the real-time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army, especially in the backdrop of the current geopolitical security environment.
• ASIGMA has been developed 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.