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Description: Defense and intelligence agencies are increasing their use of open source geospatial software for a number of reasons. Many policy barriers that once constrained open source use have been eliminated.

Resource Description: Companies like Red Hat, along with organizations like MIL-OSS, have made it increasingly easy for members of the defense and intelligence community to adopt supported open source solutions to meet their mission goals.

Resource Description: Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including the KVM hypervisor, has been awarded the Common Criteria certification at evaluation assurance level 4+, the highest level for an unmodified commercial operating system.

Resource Description: Neil Ziring, the Technical Director for the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate made the argument at the Red Hat Government Symposium that open source projects need to start focusing on the origins of their code. Read more.

Resource Description: Dan Risache discusses how open source software is associated with the standard procedure of the Department of Defense during the Red Hat Government Symposium.

Description: Open source software has long been touted as the antidote to monolithic, buggy, and security-challenged software packages developed by the industry's 800-pound gorillas.

Resource Description: The central message of Neil Ziring's (technical director for the NSA#39;s Information Assurance Directorate) presentation at the Red Hat Government Symposium was that hackers are increasingly targeting new devices and software applications indirectly and earlier in their development cycles.

Description: In a move toward a more efficient National Reconnaissance Office, analysts for the agency operating the nation's spy satellites are on the verge of getting their information through a top-secret open source cloud environment housing intelligence data.

Resource Description: Jill Singer, the NRO's chief information officer, offered the latest details on the verge of getting the agency's information through a top-secret open source cloud environment housing intelligence data.

Description: The US Patent and Trademark Office's chief information officer, John Owens, discusses the value of virtualization and open source at the 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium.

Resource Description: The US Patent and Trademark Office's chief information officer, John Owens, discusses the value of virtualization and open source at the 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium.

Description: The use of open source software in governments was a popular topic of conversation for bloggers and tech journalists this week.

Resource Description: With recent events like the Red Hat Government Symposium, it#39;s easy to see why discussions got sparked about US agencies using open source software.

Resource Description: General Dynamics C4 Systems' Trusted Network Environment version 11 cyber is now approved by the US government to operate on classified government networks using the Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6 enterprise platform.

Description: General Services Administration's Digital Services Innovation Center director Gwynne Kostin outlined her ideas on how government can make its content more accessible, speaking at the 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium produced by FedScoop.

Resource Description: General Services Administration's Digital Services Innovation Center director Gwynne Kostin outlined her ideas on how government can make its content more accessible, speaking at the 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium produced by FedScoop.