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How the DoD learned to stop worrying and love open source
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| The House draft of the annual defense budget reauthorization bill prominently
| lists open source software (OSS) among the objectives that should be
| considered in the procurement strategy for aerial vehicle technology and
| veteran health systems. If the bill passes in the House, it would be the
| first time that the National Defense Authorization Act explicitly expresses a
| preference for OSS.
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| OSS has seen rapid public sector uptake over the past few years. Governments
| around the world are streamlining their technological infrastructure and
| reducing their IT costs by using emerging open technologies. Adopters have
| reported a wide range of benefits, including greater interoperability, less
| dependence on any single vendor, more competitive pricing, and greater
| flexibility.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080910-how-the-dod-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-open-source.html
Open source and military procurement don’t mix
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| The U.S. House has inserted language advocating open source into the latest
| military procurement bill.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2882
Defense Dept. committee has open-source leaning
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| As Government Computer News reports, the U.S Department of Defense has
| singled out open source in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
| Year 2009 (H.R. 5658). The gist? The Defense Department sees open source as a
| way to cut costs and boost security, and it wants more of it.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10037544-16.html
Recent:
Power processing for all
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| As part of the Defense Department’s High Performance Computing Modernization
| Program (HPCMP), ASC receives a new supercomputer every two years and retires
| the oldest system. In October, it added a 9,216-processorcore SGI Altix 4700
| system running Red Hat Linux with 20T of shared memory and 440T of usable
| disk space. Delivering more than 60 teraflops, it raises the center’s
| capacity to 85 teraflops — more than triple what was available previously.
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http://www.gcn.com/print/27_2/45696-1.html
Related:
Ball Aerospace Launches Opticks Open Source Software
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| Opticks is used by scientists and analysts within the Department of Defense
| Intelligence Community to analyze remote sensing data and produce actionable
| intelligence. Opticks supports Imagery, Motion Imagery, Synthetic Aperture
| Radar (SAR), and multi-spectral and hyper-spectral remote sensing data. Ball
| Aerospace expects Opticks to increase the demand for remote sensing data and
| broaden the features available in existing remote sensing software.
|
| "Ball Aerospace's Opticks demonstrates how government-sponsored code
| originally developed by a contractor can be maximized by releasing it as open
| source," said John M. Weathersby, executive director of the Open-Source
| Software Institute. "This creative business development effort is consistent
| with the forward-thinking strategy outlined in the Department of Defense's
| Open Technology Development roadmap."
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM08410122007-1.htm
Malware knocks Defense Department e-mail offline
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| According to the Associated Press, the US Defense Department took
| 1,500 computers offline as the result of a cyber attack.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9733189-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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
Defence fortifies open source MediaWiki
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| With an annual budget of $440 million and more than 2300 staff, the DSTO
| chose the open source MediaWiki for its internal wiki, which is freely
| available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=7626501&rid=-50
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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