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Using open protocols and open source solutions: great idea. Letting some random company operate your army's IT infrastructure: what could possibly go wrong?
by jupp0r 4y ago
Using open protocols and open source solutions: great idea.
Letting some random company operate your army's IT infrastructure: what could possibly go wrong?
- comte7092 4y agoThe infrastructure is managed by Germanys public administration. The French utilize matrix for military operations as well. This isn’t “some random company”.
- Xylakant 4y agoRandom is pretty load bearing here. The BWI GmbH was literally created to operate the armies non-military IT infrastructure.
- jupp0r 4y agoThey also operate military infrastructure, ie operation planning software and battle management systems [1, from the German Wikipedia article]. [1] https://esut.de/2020/05/meldungen/cyber-it/20897/digitales-gefechtsleitsystem-in-die-truppe-eingefuehrt/ https://esut.de/2020/05/meldungen/cyber-it/20897/digitales-g...
- oaiey 4y agoThe article is pretty explicit in that BWI are not running but packaging a reference software. And aside how do you think that anywhere in the world software for the army is created. It is called military industrial complex for a reason.