Evaluating Open Source Software
July - August 2010 - Defense AT&L Magazine
"There is no direct correlation between an open system and OSS. ... Because there are generally many contributors to open source projects, they tend to have a modular design; however, this is not always the case."
Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn's Remarks at Stratcom Cyber Symposium
At the U.S. Strategic Command's Cyberspace Symposium, May 26, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn, III, discussed the United States' approach to addressing cybersecurity issues. The new task force charged with re-fashioning IT acquisition to address cybersecurity issues was directed to do so around four principles that exemplify the need for open architecture: (1) speed and agility; (2) incremental development, testing, and fielding of new capabilities; (3) careful establishment of requirements; and (4) different applications require different levels of oversight and enterprise integration.
Navy to Do Without Prime Contractors on New Bomb Disposal Robots
March 2010 - National Defense
"The program will be a test of the Defense Department’s modular open systems approach policy, which is designed to ensure that the services don’t purchase proprietary technologies that make it costly and time consuming to add components."
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures
February 2010 - Military & Aerospace Electronics
"Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their main weapon in this fight is to design each system with an open architecture."
