Open SourceA platform for government innovation.

Gunnar HelleksonChief Technology Strategist, Red Hat US Public Sectorgunnar.hellekson@redhat.com · +1 202 507 9027 · @ghelleks

24 January 2012

“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

More IdeasGood ideas comes from lots of good ideas.

“The Springfield Rifle cost $20 each at the Springfield Armory where they were officially made. Overwhelmed by the demand, the armory opened its weapons patterns up to twenty private contractors. The most notable producer of contract Model 1861 Springfields was Colt, who made several minor design changes in their version, the "Colt Special" rifled musket. These changes included redesigned barrel bands, a new hammer, and a redesigned bolster. Several of these changes were eventually adopted by the Ordnance Department and incorporated into the model 1863 rifled musket."

— "Springfield Model 1861" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Model_1861

“If the DoD can’t 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 GatesSecretary of Defense

“Big Bang” IT

http://david.upton.com/opensource

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“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 EdwardsDeputy Chief of Naval Operations

Shift to a “Cloud First” PolicyEach 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'sAgencies 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” PolicyEach 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 and 93 FOIA systems for 93 agencies is untenable.

More Collaboration.To gain that standardization, 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 more agile approach.

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 Federally-mandated 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 McHughIT Manager, Trimet

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“Open source is... the most concrete formof civic participation.”

— Macon PhillipsWhite House New Media Director

Let citizen developers help you.

Deliver undifferentiated value at a lower cost.AMQP

Encourage ubiquity.SELinux

Drive modularity and interoperability.Navy Real-time

Engage the public.CivicCommons

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