The Indian Army launches messaging application

The Indian Army launched a new messaging application called ASIGMA, which stands for Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application for in-house communication, with features such as multi-level security and message prioritization.

It 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. ASIGMA has been fielded on Army-owned hardware and lends itself to lifetime support with future upgrades.

This future ready messaging application will meet real time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army, especially in the backdrop of the current geo-political security environment and is in line with the government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative.

The Army said, “The new 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.”

It said, “The Indian Army has embraced 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.”