InfoWorld's Martyn Williams reports today that the U.S. Army's Communications Electronics Research & Development Engineering Center (CERDEC) plans to "spend several months evaluating Mobile WiMax for possible military use."

Samsung Electronics is supplying the equipment. "The center will study whether the Army can use Mobile WiMax equipment in a military environment and measure, among other things, the performance of the system with both mobile users and mobile base stations," Williams writes.

The work will take place at the Army's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) On-The-Move facility, in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

"Officials from the U.S. Department of Defense visited Korea last October and were given a demonstration of WiBro, a subset of WiMax, local Korean media reported at the time," Williams writes. "The Hankook daily newspaper said a deal between Samsung and the U.S. military could be worth around much as $3 billion."

More here from TeleGeography ... and the press release is here.