Defense Department Marches Towards Open Source
In a new initiative to spur more use of open source software (OSS) within the US Defense Department, the department's Office of Advanced Systems and Concepts (AS&C) has begun teaming up with Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and AMD--along with big systems integrators and "non-traditional" open source companies--to glean insights that will help shorten the learning curve to deployment.
Now ending the first of its three implementation phases, the Open Technology Development (OTD) project is drawing upon the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) as an invited liaison between the Department of Defense (DoD) and the IT industry and open source community.
Thus far this summer, the OSSI has hosted two informational briefings around OTD, said John Weathersby, the OSSI's executive director. The first briefing, presented in May, was geared to large ISVs and OEMs.
The second one, completed this month in Washington, DC, included key DoD systems integrators such as BAE, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, and SAIC
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