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05/23/2002 Entry: "The MITRE Corporation"

The MITRE Corporation
Trying to find their May 10th paper, discussed in this article: Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon
MITRE is a not-for-profit national resource that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government.
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"Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks," said the report, by Mitre Corp.

The Mitre report said open-source software "plays a more critical role in the DOD than has been generally recognized."

The report identified 249 uses of open-source systems and tools, including running a Web portal for the Defense Intelligence Agency, running network security for the Army command in Europe and support for numerous Air Force Computer Network Defense tools.