Procuring a Government Open Source Project

Learn from experience.  Hear from these two distinguished speakers on how to navigate the government procurement process when it comes to open source software.  Understand why it's imperative that open source be written into the procurement language, and the unique role the open source development model plays in commoditizing security requirements for government projects thus controlling cost.

About the speakers:

Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force/Acquisition Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense/Acting Director Defense Research and Engineering; President – SCI Aerospace Inc.

Sue C. Payton – change agent, acquisition expert, innovative industry leader and public servant- has over 27 years of continued success working in senior industry and government positions with military services, defense agencies, coalition partners, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Intelligence Community, Congress, Universities and the media. As the former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, in both Republican and Democrat Administrations, Ms. Payton was responsible for all Air Force research, development and acquisition activities. She provided strategy, direction, guidance and oversight of all matters pertaining to the formulation, review, approval and execution of acquisition plans, policies and programs. Ms Payton directed a $30 billion annual investment that included major weapon systems such as unmanned air vehicles, mobility, ISR and fighter aircraft, and munitions, as well as, capability areas such as alternative fuels, information technology, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. During her tenure with Lockheed Martin and Martin Marietta, Ms. Payton was responsible for leveraging the latest information technology needs of DOD and the Intelligence Community and she resolved complex space system acquisition and technical issues. She has extensive experience leading government and industry partnerships focused on maturing and applying technology, operations concepts, tactics, techniques and procedures to solve national security problems worldwide.

Mr. David A. Wheeler is a well-known expert in developing secure software and open source software. His works on security include the book “Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO,” his developerWorks column "Secure Programmer," and the article “Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC).” He is a co-author of the NDIA document “Engineering for System Assurance,” and the author of “Why Open Source Software? Look at the Numbers!” His works on open source software and the U.S. government include “Open Source Software (OSS) in U.S. Government Acquisitions” (Software Tech News, Vol. 10, No. 2) and the Data & Analysis Center for Software (DACS) webinar on “Open Source Software (OSS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)”.