BlackBerry surges on continued Pentagon dominance

By Bloomberg News

Published January 20, 2014 5:00am ET

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BlackBerry surges on continued Pentagon dominance — John Chen, who took over as BlackBerry's chief executive officer in November, is reorienting the company toward its core of business and government users. (Getty images File) | Joe Raedle

BlackBerry Ltd. surged the most in more than three years after the Department of Defense said the company’s smartphones will account for 98 percent of devices in one of its new networks.

About 80,000 BlackBerrys and 1,800 phones and tablets based on Apple Inc.’s iOS software and Google Inc.’s Android operating system will start being hooked up to the Department of Defense’s management system at the end of this month, the Defense Information Systems Agency said in a statement last week.

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