U.S. Navy and OSSI Initiate Open Source CRADA Activities
Mar 24th, 19:55 UTC
Red Hat to Lead Industry Team; Syracuse University and Southern Miss to Direct Academic Effort
Stennis
Space Center, MS - Tuesday, March 23, 2005- Government and
industry representatives gathered on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at
Stennis Space Center to launch the second open source software
research and development program between the U.S. Navy and the Open
Source Software Institute (OSSI).
The
effort is part of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) between OSSI and the Commander, Naval Meteorology and
Oceanography Command (CNMOC). The three-year R&D program will
explore the Navy's usage of open source software within the Naval
Oceanographic Office's (NAVOCEANO) web services, scientific computing
and enterprise architecture systems.
The
CRADA is the second such major R&D program between the U.S. Navy
and OSSI (www.oss-institute.org). The initial CRADA between the Navy and OSSI was conducted
between
October 2001 and 2004, and enabled the Navy to identify and document
extensive usage of open source applications and programs within their
enterprise systems.
OSSI
is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the
development and implementation of open source solutions within
government environments. OSSI has fielded a team of industry and
academic representatives to administer the program in conjunction
with NAVOCEANO and CNMOC personnel.
The
OSSI CRADA team will be lead by Barry Duplantis of Red Hat, Inc.
(NSDQ: RHAT). Duplantis will serve as the OSSI CRADA team program
manager and will coordinate the activities of all participating
industry program members. Red Hat (www.redhat.com)
has also dedicated additional technical resources and business
analysis personnel to the OSSI CRADA team.
Waltham,
MA-based Black Duck Software will also serve as a technical
contributor to the OSSI CRADA team. Black Duck (www.blackducksoftware.com),
the leading provider of open source software compliance management
solutions, will be providing their expertise and code analysis
services as part of the Navy CRADA.
The
OSSI CRADA team will include representatives from the academic world.
Two universities will participate as members of the OSSI CRADA team;
Syracuse University and the University of Southern Mississippi.
Dr.
Scott Bernard will lead a team from Syracuse University's School of
Information Studies (http://istweb.syr.edu/). The Syracuse team will address issues of Enterprise
Architecture
(EA) management practices, planning context and methodology.
Dr.
Andrew Strelzoff of the University of Southern Mississippi will
direct a team from the Southern Miss School of Science and
Technology's Department of Computer Science
(http://www.usm.edu/css/). Dr. Strelzoff's team will develop and implement new and
unique
"code only" software tools designed to study the Navy's software
development, maintenance and restructuring processes.
About
the Open Source Software Institute
The
Open Source Software Institute is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization
whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of
open source software solutions within U.S. federal, state and
municipal government agencies and academic entities. Information on
OSSI activities, and a results briefing on the initial Navy CRADA can
be found on the OSSI website at: http://oss-institute.org
.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Red Hat
builds and maintains the Red
Hat Linux distribution of the Linux operating system for Intel, DEC
Alpha, and Sun SPARC platforms. Red Hat also publishes and maintains
commercial applications for Linux including OSF Motif, CDE, and the
Applixware Office Suite. For more information about Red Hat, visit
www.redhat.com.
About Black Duck
Software
Founded in
2002, Waltham, Massachusetts-based Black Duck is the leading provider
of software compliance management solutions for governing software
assets. Black Duck's customer base includes enterprises, vendors, law
firms and other organizations worldwide. For more information about
Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com,
About
CNMOC
Commander,
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
(http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil) is
a third echelon operational command reporting to Commander, U.S.
Fleet Forces Command (http://www.cffc.navy.mil/).
The Command is aligned to
and focused on the Navy's
five warfighting disciplines -- Anti-Submarine Warfare; Special
Warfare; Mine Warfare; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance;
and Fleet Operations (Strike and Expeditionary) -- as well as the
following warfighting support disciplines: Navigation, Precise Time
and Astrometry, Maritime Operations and Aviation Operations.
The command's personnel
are located at its
headquarters at the John C. Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis,
Mississippi, and at several field activities located around the
world.
(Submitted by John Weathersby of Open Source Software Institute)
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