"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..."
