U.S. Department of Defense
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| This action provides for advanced cockpit one production effort includes
| production and integration of Linux hardware for Predator/Reaper ground
| control stations. At this time all funds have been obligated. HQ AFMC,
| Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity
| (F8620-05-G-3028-Order 0025).
|
| McDonnell Douglas Corp., of Saint Louis, Mo., is being awarded a contract
| modification for $14,759,087.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3673
They do this quietly, but they seem to prefer Linux. Windows has given them a
lot of trouble recently, which damanged their reputation.
Yesterday:
Apples For The Army
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| By Wallington's estimate, around 20,000 of the Army's 700,000 or so desktops
| and servers are Apple-made. He estimates that about a thousand Macs enter the
| Army's ranks during each of its bi-annual hardware buying periods.
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http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/12/20/apple-army-hackers-tech-security-cx_ag_1221army.html
Related:
Mil-spec computer resists heat, runs Linux
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| Quantum3D has announced a rugged, battery-operable computer aimed at
| video-intensive military applications. The Thermite TVC 3.0 runs Linux,
| according to the company, and features Core 2 Solo or Duo processors and a
| variety of video capture and graphics options.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8509369998.html
Defense Information Systems Agency's Wi-Fi Flying Squirrel
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| The software, this source said, owes a lot to open source Wi-Fi sniffing
| tools such as NetStumbler or Kismet, but has a somewhat snazzier interface
| and the all important U.S. Strategic Command steering group?s stamp of
| approval.
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http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/05/disas_wifi_flying_squirrel.html
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
|
| [...]
|
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
|
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
DOD Awards Contracts Worth Up to $700M
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| Palo Alto, Calif.-based printer and personal computer
| maker HP was awarded two separate deals worth up to
| $440 million over eight years that cover the HP-UX,
| Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
| Novell SUSE Linux operating systems.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061018/disa_contracts.html?.v=2
Defense kicks off open-source encryption program
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| "Interests within the DOD were pleased with the results of the
| initial OpenSSL validation program and have identified extensions
| to that work for greater availability of FIPS 140-2 validated
| open- source software for use within DOD IT systems," Weathersby said.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43425-1.html
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| "After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last
| year .. OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation"
|
| "We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of
| complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.' .. Silly or
| no, each complaint that's filed really slows down the process."
|
| "the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about
| who had filed the complaint .. in some cases, proprietary software vendors
| were lodging the complaints.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
Navy CIO 'recognizes the importance of OSS to the warfighter'
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| John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software
| Institute, told Linux.com today that, effective immediately, the
| Department of the Navy has adopted a new policy which requires that
| open source software must be considered in every software
| acquisition the Navy makes.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/06/0135204
State Department got mail and hackers
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| A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last
| summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a
| mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S.
| government's network.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_hi_te/hackers_state_department
The feds weigh in on Windows security
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| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html
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