Linux in Government: Open Source Innovation within the DoD (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Linux Journal looks at open source adoption by the US Department of Defense. "The Program Management Office (PMO) for DMLSS [Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support] is located in Falls Church, Virginia. Continuing development and support facilities exist at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, at the Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center. At Ft. Detrick, programmers support open-source components in applications that require cryptography. They open-source components include Stunnel, Apache, ModSSL and OpenSSL."

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Linux in Government: Open Source Innovation within the DoD (Linux Journal)

Posted Jun 29, 2004 13:28 UTC (Tue) by mhhall (guest, #19739) [Link]

As someone who has dealt with this bureacracy, I'd like to applaud the
efforts documented here.

I would like to ask a question. If the US Gov't and DoD have so many
programs to help small and minority businesses, why can't Open Source
Software projects (which appear to be at best either small or "not for
profit" operations) receive the same benefits that a small business
would receive (specifically, some advocacy from within the government
-- not from the business unit level as described within the article
-- but from the NIST / NSA organizations that implement these standards).