Military Command and Control Information System Mobile Application – Rakkasans App

Updated: Jul 7

The RAK app is a catch-all application for members of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, also known as the “Rakka-sans”, derived from the Japanese word for “parachute.”

The existing mobile app used by military units, “Digital Garrison,” does not cater to differences in need across units and fails to be an efficient tool for information handling and communication. The developer is accused of having oppressive acquisition models that fail and generate hundreds-million-dollar contracts.

The “Rakkasans App” is for soldiers, military leadership, families and friends, and veterans. It is adaptable and reliable, allows for synchronized information distribution, and has an intuitive design. The application is built in React and is a Low-Code product that can be managed by soldiers.

My Junior Design project (the College of Computer Science's equivalent of a Senior Capstone project) was to develop three additional features for this application at the client's request: Message Moderation, Forum and Roster pages, and S-Shop pages (customizable information and form pages that soldiers can manage from the app).

This repository includes our expo presentation, detailed design document, video demonstrations of the application's development sprints, and expo dress rehearsal. The GitHub repository is not available publicly, but I have embedded the Figma prototypes to interact with the features we later implemented in the code.