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Red Hat Government News is a monthly newsletter designed to provide government agencies worldwide with the latest information on training, offers, events, and news articles.
Since the groundhog saw his shadow, we all know that we have a few more weeks of winter ahead of us. Beat the chill by grabbing a cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and dive into the many articles out this month that highlight open source adoption and resources available to you on our government website http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/articles/. Once there, flip over to our events calendar so you can make plans to see us in person at an upcoming industry show and ask us our solutions focusing on virtualization, linux automation, and SOA. Remember we are more than just linux...
What is the DoD Directive 8570?
The DoD Directive 8570 is a formalized training and certification policy for all personnel with access to DoD information systems. It specifies that all Information Assurance (IA) personnel be trained and certified according to their job functions. All IA workforce in the Technical category (IAT) must obtain IA certification and an operating system certification for the operating system(s) they support.
Red Hat offers world class certifications on its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and the system administration tasks associated with it. Given that the DoD is a large consumer of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product, we are offering DoD Information Assurance personnel a special training offer to help comply with DoD Directive 8570.
Special Training Promotion
Red Hat is providing a special offer to help you comply with 8570. For a limited time, you will receive a complimentary Red Hat Training Success Pack when you enroll in either both relevant Red Hat Training Classes, RH033 (Red Hat Linux Essentials) and RH133 (Red Hat Linux Administration & RHCT Exam), or RH133 alone.
Click here for more information on this limited time offer!
What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking system runs on Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles that use the Linux operating system?
That's just one of the technical quandaries the service is grappling with in four "Battle Command" summits that are bringing some 70 programmers, engineers and information technology (IT) profession-als to Washington to work up an IT roadmap.
The Army uses "battle command" to refer to battlefield radios and electronic networks and the commanders who use them.
"It is not just battle command, but the IT network behind battle command which as a complete solution needs to be addressed," said U.S. Army Col. Brian Donahue, director of Army LandWarNet G3.
The first two, held in the Washington area in September and November, will be followed by two more in February and April, all chaired by Gen. Richard Cody, vice chief of staff of the Army.
The Battle Command summits are organized into four topic areas, including battle command brigade and below, which examines communications between brigade-size and smaller units; brigade and above, or communications between larger units; transport; and logistics.
Click here to read the entire article.
Raleigh NC - February 3, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat management team will host two middleware strategy press conferences that will be broadcast live via webcast from JBoss World Orlando, taking place at the Marriot Orlando World Center Resort February 13-15, 2008.
The first JBoss World Orlando webcast is scheduled to air live at 1p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 13 and will be accessible by visiting http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=67156&eventID=1701245.
The second live webcast will take place at 1p.m. ET on Thursday, February 14 and will be accessible by visiting http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=67156&eventID=1759813.
Read the full press release here.
NCSI and DIA are excited to announce that the 2008 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 16 - 20 March, in San Diego!
Due to the continued success of the conference, DoDIIS Worldwide has graduated in size and will be held along the beautiful San Diego Harbor at the San Diego Convention Center. These facilities represent the largest venue thus far for the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference. The convention center will provide additional perks, such as having the exhibit hall adjacent to the sessions, our largest exhibit floor ever, beautiful waterside views and outdoor terraces.
Over the past several years, the Defense Intelligence Agency CIO-sponsored DoDIIS Worldwide Conference has become the Intelligence Community's premier IT conference. This year's event, to be held in San Diego, will highlight cutting-edge capabilities currently deployed and explore innovative solutions designed to support the changing needs of the community.
Click here for more information and to register for this event!
