TheOpenAnalyst » U.S. Department of Defense http://www.theopenanalyst.com Open Source | Open Principles | Open World Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 US Defense Dept. goes public with some open source plans http://www.theopenanalyst.com/727/us-defense-dept-goes-public-with-some-open-source-plans/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/727/us-defense-dept-goes-public-with-some-open-source-plans/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:10:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/727/us-defense-dept-goes-public-with-some-open-source-plans/
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As a next step in open source, the DoD is teaming up with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) on a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) that will allow over 50 federal administration applications to be publicly distributed under an open source license.

In a presentation at John Hopkins University on Monday, DoD officials said that, under the deal, users in other federal agencies — along with state and local government, and the general public — will be able to reuse code developed by the agency’s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for its Corporate Management Information System (CMIS).

US Defense Dept. goes public with some open source plans | IT Systems News – Betanews

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/727/us-defense-dept-goes-public-with-some-open-source-plans/feed/ 0 Carahsoft Awarded U.S. DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Contract for Open Source Solutions http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:43:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/ Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense ESI Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Open Source Solutions. The contract encompasses software and support services from Red Hat, JBoss, Alfresco, Pentaho, MySQL, and CollabNet.

“This BPA is significant on several levels, as it affirms open source as an enterprise-ready alternative to proprietary software,” explained Paul Smith, vice president of government operations at Red Hat. “The BPA offers DoD customers access to a broad base of industry leading open source solutions, enabling agencies to not only cut cost out of their operations, but improve their services at the same time.”

Carahsoft Awarded U.S. DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Contract for Open Source Solutions – MSNBC Wire Services – msnbc.com

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/feed/ 0 Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense http://www.theopenanalyst.com/160/open-source-makes-serious-headway-in-the-us-department-of-defense/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/160/open-source-makes-serious-headway-in-the-us-department-of-defense/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:28:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/?p=160 As I listened to David Mihelcic, CTO with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency talk about the benefits of open source on Federal News Radio’s presentation of “Open Source Solutions – 2 Years In Review,” I couldn’t help but be impressed with just how far open source has come in the past decade.

When I first got involved with open source back in 1998, it was perceived as risky (Rampant fear of the GPL and other open-source licenses), not secure (How can community development take care to lock out the bad guys?), and niche. In 2008, however, the CTO of a powerful agency within the U.S. Department of Defense boldly declares open source’s superiority as a development model:

Open source brings to us the ability to have collaborative and agile development environments….Additionally, open source benefits the Department of Defense through…simplified licensing…and security….Security through obscurity just doesn’t work.

Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense | The Open Road – CNET News

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