Red Hat and the US Government

Gunnar Hellekson Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat US Public Sector gunnar.hellekson@redhat.com +1 202 507 9027 @ghelleks 6 February 2012

First, some happy open source users.

FAA Modernization
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is trusted to manage all U.S. air traffic. Two million passengers a day rely on the Traffic Flow Management and the Enhanced Traffic Management System to ensure that their flights arrive on-time. After porting 1.5 million lines of code from the legacy program, the FAA replaced 1000 systems, including 700 workstations. The cost per system plummeted from $25,000 to $3,000 each.
By switching to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and off-the-shelf hardware, we were able to spend less than $10 million on a project that cost $25 million in 1998. Red Hat Enterprise Linux fixed our problems of reliability and scalability, and allowed us to achieve 30 percent more in operational efficiency for 50 percent less cost,
Joshua Gustin TFM-Modernization Program Manager

Blue Force Tracker

The US Army FBCB2 program provides friendly force location data to 70,000 warfighters on mobile devices. PEO-C3T needed a stable, secure platform for BFT that also allowed for a range of hardware options and an accessible development environment. They chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Our job is to provide accurate and timely information to the soldier in the field so they can perform their mission. 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.
Brigadier General Nickolas G. Justice Deputy Program Officer, PEO-C3T U.S. Army

DISA RACE Service

The Defense Information Systems Agency's Computing Services Directorate creates a rapid-deployment environment that provisions hardened systems to DOD customers. Only two computing environments are offered: Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This is all about our customers... RACE is a first for DoD our users can now customize, purchase, and receive their test and development computing platform within 24 hours and the production environments within 72 hours, and thats a must for worldwide missions with ever-changing computing requirements.
Henry J. Sienkiewicz Technical Program Director DISA Computing Services

Federal Bureau of Investigations

Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) serves one million end users in 18,000 agencies. The CJIS data center processes 8.5 million transactions a day, including 200,000 fingerprint checks each day, and 14.5 million background checks each year. By moving to an open source platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Middleware, CJIS gained four times the capacity, while saving $80 million dollars. Department of Homeland Security now performs background checks at the border against 68 million criminal records in under 15 seconds.

US Navy JCDX

The JCDX System is the core intelligence system for two important US Allies, and used as their National Intelligence System. The JCDX System is also used by the U.S. Navy in their Maritime Surveillance System (MSS) Program. The system is a true MLS system that has been accredited and certified at the Protection Level Four (PL4) level by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Whitehouse.gov

The White House web site runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Apache, MySQL, and the Drupal content management system.

Open source is... the most concrete form of civic participation.

Macon Phillips White House New Media Director

myBenefits.ny.gov
New York State's Office of Temporary Disability Assistance saved weeks and thousands of dollars on application changes moving business logic to the JBoss Rules platform. Since the business logic is now easily shared, OTDA is able to collaborate with five other states on the 80% of the Federallymandated rules they have in common. This further reduces the cost and time needed to keep their business rules current.

We took all the underlying technology and converted it into open-source technology... If you look at some of these federal programs, the rules are very similar from state to state, a portion are almost identical so why do we need to reinvent these systems so many times?
Dr. Daniel Chan, NYS CIO

OpenTripPlanner
Portland, Oregon's Trimet needed a trip planning application for riders that could handle train, bus, and bicycles. Ahead of schedule by 6 months and at one-third the cost of competing proprietary systems that were less functional, they developed OpenTripPlanner. The software is now used or in testing in New York City, Valencia, Pune, Tampa, and a dozen other cities.

We knew exactly how the work was coming along, and we could see that hours weren't inflated. That trust goes a long way.
Bibiana McHugh IT Manager, Trimet

SCAP.

Let citizen developers help you.

Deliver undifferentiated value at a lower cost.

AMQP

Encourage ubiquity.
SELinux

Drive modularity and interoperability.

Navy Real-time OMB, NIST

Disseminate standards and best practices.

Engage the public. CivicCommons

Why did they do it?

Shift to a Cloud First Policy

Each Agency will identify three must move services. They must move one to the cloud within 12 months, and the rest within 18 months.

Consolidate IT spending under Agency CIO's

Agencies and programs currently design, build, and operate independent systems. The minor differences between agency-specific systems and their associated operational processes do not drive value for the agencies.

Shift to a Shared First Policy

Each Agency will identify two business services that can be shared amongst departments or other agencies.

From Section 804 of the 2010 Defense Authorization...

(a) New Acquisition Process Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a new acquisition process for information technology systems. The acquisition process developed and implemented pursuant to this subsection shall, to the extent determined appropriate by the Secretary-(1) be based on the recommendations in chapter 6 of the March 2009 report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition of Information Technology; and

(2) be designed to include-(A) early and continual involvement of the user; (B) multiple, rapidly executed increments or releases of capability; (C) early, successive prototyping to support an evolutionary approach; and (D) a modular, open-systems approach.

More Standardization.
We can no longer afford to build the same system from scratch for every agency or branch. 50 systems for 50 states is untenable.

More Collaboration.
We need a way of working together to drive out redundancy and find new opportunities for sharing the burden.

More Opex, less Capex.

Too much of the IT budget goes to capital spending. Instead of buying more boxes, we need a new approach.

When a private individual mediates an undertaking, however directly connected it may be with the welfare of society, he never thinks of soliciting the cooperation of the Government, but he publishes his plan, offers to execute it himself, courts the assistance of other individuals, and struggles manfully against all obstacles. Undoubtedly he is often less successful that the State might have been in his position; but in the end the sum of these private undertakings far exceeds all that the Government could have done.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

If the DoD cant figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes.

Robert Gates Secretary of Defense

Col. John Boyd, USAF His energy-maneuverability theory says that agility is more important than how fast or how big a plane is. His OODA Loop (Observe-Orient-DecideAct) transformed the DoD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boyd56.jpg, Licensed

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MORE COMPETITION LOWER ADMIN COSTS LONGER LIFECYCLE

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LOWER ADMIN COSTS FASTER PATCH RESPONSE RATIONAL APP STRATEGY

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QUICKER DEVELOPMENT LESS ADMIN OVERHEAD SHARED SERVICES (MESSAGING, DATABASES)

PaaS STANDARD DEV PLATFORM COMMON OS BUILD STANDARD HARDWARE

We have to share to iterate quicker.

A cloud is sharing at run-time.

Open source is sharing at dev-time.

Agility is the capability.

Red Hat is the catalyst.

ACHIEVE FLEXIBILITY AND AVOID LOCK-IN WITH COMPLETE PORTABILITY IN THE CLOUD

Our research shows that 80 percent of enterprises cite the lack of interoperability standards as a challenge in adopting cloud computing services. Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock-in.
Gary Chen, Research Manager, IDC

The days of proprietary technology must come to an end. We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data.

Vice Admiral Mark Edwards Deputy Chief of Naval Operations

YOU ARE HERE

Thank you.

Gunnar Hellekson Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat US Public Sector gunnar.hellekson@redhat.com +1 202 507 9027 @ghelleks 6 February 2012