Shame, Irony, and the Littoral Combat Ship.
A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, …
Risacher unleashed!
Dan Risacher from the DOD CIO’s office is now blogging. Finally.
History of Open Source in Government
[This is a writeup I did as a companion to the History of Open Source in Government Timeline. Karl Fogel and I …
FedRAMP for the impatient.
FedRAMP is how clouds will be authorized for use in the Federal government. With it, the government to authorize a cloud for …
DISA releases IAVA-to-CVE mapping
The DOD keeps its own catalog of system vulnerabilities, the IAVM. You can think about this as the computer security alerting system …
DOD Open Technology Development Guide Released!
The DOD’s second Open Technology Development Roadmap has been released: “Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned and Best Practices“. It’s a handbook for …
Fighting Forks
This is the ignite presentation I gave for the Mil-OSS WG2 conference today. It’s a tremendous group of sandal-shod revolutionaries who want …
Open Source in Government: Who was first?
Brian Purchia of Burson-Marsteller has a post over on GovFresh about the value of open source to unions. His argument pivots on …
Open Source headlines from the Open Government plans
The Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive ordered Federal agencies to produce open government plans by April 7th, and while some advocates are disappointed, …
My OSCON 2009 Talk on Open Source in Government
The good people at O’Reilly have posted my Open Source in Government talk at OSCON 2009 on blip.tv. It’s also on YouTube. …
Open Source and Open Standards
Open standards are motherhood and apple pie – they ensure a level playing field in which many implementations can compete against each …