The lab has run contests for software to automatically identify craters on the moon or monitor the health of astronauts via tablets, using TopCoder to run the competitions.
In financial services and health care there is a strong move toward providing tablets to staff who deal with customers or patients, but they want Microsoft devices because of concerns about regulation and security.
While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
Grunenthal had by the start of the new century provided nearly 4m tablets - for free - around the world for ENL, although the World Health Organisation has subsequently advised against its use for this because of the risks.
These solutions included expansion of the company's managed mobility services for tablets, mobile access to cloud-based SAP applications and enhanced security management programs for health care providers.