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Ingersoll Axles is a member of the IMT Partnership. It was founded as a small factory in the town of Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada in 1913 for the production of a soap called "Fun to Wash." The soap had a very short life, and the factory was soon converted to make brooms. In 1914, it was purchased by E.A. Wilson, who used the facility to create ...
Open software in the military industry refers to the use of open-source software (OSS) applications, frameworks, and tools in various military contexts. [1] This approach contrasts with traditional proprietary software, offering unique advantages like cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and collaborative development but also bringing such challenges as security breaches and reliability.
The software is licensed rather than purchased outright, and at the time marked a major shift in acquisition strategy for DoD. While DoD had previous experience in licensing software, it largely revolved around either desktop computing ( operating systems , office automation products, etc.) or back-end servers ( mainframe operating systems ...
The Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System was an enterprise program of the Business Transformation Agency's Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive, within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). As the largest enterprise resource planning program ever implemented for human resources, DIMHRS (pronounced dime-ers) was ...
The consortium is tasked with developing Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) which is a secure military network for the MoD (United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence). [1] This is the largest, most complex information infrastructure rolled out in Europe and connects 300,000 users and 150,000 terminals in 2,000 MoD locations around the world.
Predecessors of Huntington Ingalls Industries The former Huntington Ingalls Industries logo. When it spun off as a new company on 31 March 2011, Huntington Ingalls Industries comprised Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding businesses in Newport News, Virginia, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Avondale, Louisiana; Avondale was closed in 2014.
The FOSS report began in early 2002 as a request relayed to Terry Bollinger of The MITRE Corporation to collect data on how FOSS was being used in U.S. DoD systems. The driver for the request was an ongoing debate within the U.S. DoD about whether to ban the use of FOSS in its systems, and in particular whether to ban GNU General Public License (GPL) software.
Anduril Industries (Joint Base Andrews) Lattice at a 2020 field test of the Advanced Battle Management System. A battlefield management system (BMS) is a system meant to integrate information acquisition and processing to enhance command and control of a military unit [1] through multiple other C4ISR(Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ...