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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.     
| 
| 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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