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Welcome to the Open Source Software Institute
The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a membership-based, non-profit 501(c)(6) organization comprised of corporate, government, academic and open source development community representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open source software solutions within U.S. Federal, state and local government agencies.
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Open Security:
How the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) program leverages open source software in support of national cybersecurity objectives
by Dana Blankenhorn
Open Security: it sounds like an oxymoron. Military intelligence. Open security.
It isn't. Open security may be the most important innovation yet in our battle against online bad guys.
It starts from simple truths. Security is a necessity. All intelligence is now software. Bad guys need to find just one hole to break into a system, while good guys have to protect against every possible vulnerability.
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Government Adoption of Open Source Software: At the TIPPING POINT
Open source software has found its footing within the US Federal Government.
Over the past decade, corporate, academic, government and community members of OSSI have been telling the story and sharing the vision of how open source can benefit government technology systems.
This presentation is a collection of those ideas, insights and examples of how and where open source brings value to the public sector.
View the full (25 slides) Tipping Point slide deck via Google Docs here.
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View the brief (10 slides) Tipping Point slide deck via Google Docs here.
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A Decade of Open Source in the Navy
In 2001, the Open Source Software Institute had the privilege to engage with the U.S. Navy's Meteorology and Oceanography Command in order to discover where and how the Navy might be using open source software within it's information technology systems. The working relationships established during these years of collaborative discovery and information sharing have led to other projects both within the Navy and outward into all facets of government IT usage.
On May 6, 2011, OSSI received a letter from the CNMOC command thanking OSSI for its ten years of cooperative participation with the US Navy. The letter states:
"Over the last decade, we (CNMOC) have become ever more reliant on the use of Open Source Software (OSS) as a means to increase our efficiencies, thus using OSS as a force multiplier.
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