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NASA turns to the open source community for advice: Interview with Ray O'Brien, Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology at NASA Ames Research Center - Story
September 02, 2011
NASA's drive toward open source software (yes, you read that right) is showing up in the NASA-cofounded OpenStack open source development community and in NASA's open source software summit outreaches to the open source community. Ray O'Brien, CTO for IT at NASA Ames Research Center, talks about what's behind NASA's drive toward open source - and whether there are any resultant security concerns. Edited excerpts follow.
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An interview with Ken LaBel at NASA's NEPP program: Rocket science applied to components - Story
February 10, 2009
Editor's Note: Group editorial director Chris Ciufo caught up with Ken LaBel, NEPP co-manager, at last year's Components for Military and Space Electronics (CMSE) trade show and again at the recent FPGA Summit to get the 411 on NEPP's multifaceted mission: to analyze and test nascent (even commercial) technologies for radiation tolerance; develop qualification insurance guidance; and to make its testing results public (believe it or not).
