‘Battle Command’ Summits
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| What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking system runs on
| Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future Combat Systems (FCS)
| vehicles that use the Linux operating system?
|
| [...]
|
| “Red Hat 5 will link Linux with Microsoft and allow FCS forces to link with
| other brigade combat teams,” the Army official said. “This will be an interim
| solution because over the long haul, eventually all of the Army’s networks
| will be Linux-based.”
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http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3329623&C=america
Turkey, Germany and many other nations move in the same direction. A toy
operating system does not belong in armies, which couldn't care less about
Aero Glass.
Recent:
Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source
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| "Sixty five percent of our applications run on Linux, and over 60 percent of
| our databases leverage open source solutions. We use Linux, Apache, MySQL,
| PHP, Python and Perl (a combination of software programs known as LAMP
| stacks). Over the years, since 1994, we've easily saved more than $500,000 in
| software licenses. While the cost benefits have been substantial,
| improvements in interoperability along with quick procurement cycles and
| boosts to staff morale -- programmers really like 'owning their code' -- have
| been key driving forces. This has been the true value of LAMP and our other
| open source initiatives," Welty said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60965.html
The Complex Crux Of Wireless Warfare
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| Boeing and the Army said they chose not to use Microsoft's proprietary
| software because they didn't want to be beholden to the company. Instead,
| they chose to develop a Linux-based operating system based on publicly
| available code.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303695.html
Related:
Conference Highlights Open Technology Adoption within Defense and
Intelligence Systems
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| "When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General
| Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the
| U.S. Army is "the" single largest install base for Red Hat Linux.
| I'm their largest customer."
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http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/index.php?duty=Show&id=17056&trv=1
Army Seeks to Catalyze Open Source Intelligence
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| A new U.S. Army Field Manual is intended to advance the development
| and use of open source intelligence (OSINT), which is intelligence
| that is derived from publicly available data legally obtained.
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http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/01/army_seeks_to_catalyze_open_so.html
A Network Appliance Platform for Linux Applications at the US Department of
Defense
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| U.S. military requirements for network devices are growing more and
| more demanding, making a flexible Linux-based platform the foundation
| of choice.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012207-dod-linux.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
High-integrity software is key topic at 2007 Military Technologies Conference
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| Following Tokar will be Redge Bartholomew, engineering manager at Rockwell
| Collins on "Static Analysis as an Example Approach to High Integrity Open
| Source Software."
|
| [...]
|
| "Why High Integrity Software Requires Open Source Tools," is the
| presentation of the module's last speaker, Robert Dewar, president and
| chief executive officer of AdaCore.
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http://mae.pennnet.com/display_article/285223/32/NEWS/none/none/High-integrity-software-is-key-topic-at-2007-Military-Technologies-Conference/
Department of Defense Releases Open Technology Development Roadmap
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| According to OSSI, "OTD methodology will enable DoD organizations
| and contractors to rapidly adapt and extend existing software capabilities
| in response to shifting threats and requirements without, being locked in
| to a specific vendor or held hostage to proprietary technologies."
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/233257&from=rss
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