The DoD SoftwareTech News June 2007 (subscription required) is devoted to use of Open Source Software in DoD. A few of the most interesting facts and figures: The US Army is the single largest install base for Red Hat Linux ----As Brigadier General Nick Justice, the Deputy Program Officer for the Army's Program Executive Office, Command, Control and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T) observed at a recent conferen The DoD SoftwareTech News June 2007 (subscription required) is devoted to use of Open Source Software in DoD. A few of the most interesting facts and figures: The US Army is the single largest install base for Red Hat Linux —-As Brigadier General Nick Justice, the Deputy Program Officer for the Army’s Program Executive Office, Command, Control and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T) observed at a recent conference, “Open source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects and enables our command and control system to work effectively, as people’s lives depend on it. When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source. It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is the single largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I’m their largest customer.” OSS use in U.S. government is pervasive. —-Including the Linux kernel, Samba, Apache, Perl, GCC, GNAT, XFree86, OpenSSH, bind, and sendmail. Government contractor devIS reports that it “saves its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using OSS.” Government users are often unaware when a program they are using is OSS US Government policies mandate that government acquisitions consider OSS approaches, through the FAR and OSS policies (i.e., http://oss-institute.org/Navy/DONCIO_OSS_User_Guidance.pdf Open Source