ASIGMA

ASIGMA

Part of: Prelims and GS III – Sci and tech

Context Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named ASIGMA.

Key takeaways 

• ASIGMA stands for 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.
• The application is being deployed on the Army’s internal network as a replacement of Army Wide Area Network messaging application which has been in service for the past 15 years.
• The application has been fielded on Army owned hardware. 
• It has a variety of contemporary features including multi-level security, message prioritisation and tracking.
• This future ready messaging application will meet real time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army.