Last November the DOD announced several military contracts coming up for re-bid including DISA Common Operating Environment. The COE is an enormous common platform and security project funded by DOD.  I just wrote and requested that the COE Kernel development should be a small business set-aside since the development team in under a half-dozen people.  They wrote back that they would consider it.  The rest of their work is maintenance, technical support, testing, and documentation, so is ideal for small business set-aside as well.  Since the COE is a major security project in the 1/4 billion dollar class for DOD in terms of annual expense, I would consider pursuing it. 
 
Should you suddenly find it logical to investigating combining the capabilities of SELinux into the COE (a sort of best of breed), and want to bid that, write me. 
 
Since COE is cross-platform and used by at least 100 DOD agencies and all 13 or so Defense organizations (Navy, Army, NATO, Strategic Missle Command, etc), it would make sense to move SELinux into COE, not the other way around.  COE was preceded by the massive GCCS project, so it has a 10 year history.  COE has a constituency that is very widespread. SELinux does not have either of these, yet. 
 
 
Regards,
Donald Kasper
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Stanco
To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: GW's CPI and SELinux

George Washington University's Cyberspace Policy Institute wants to help with SELinux. GW is a big security school in the area and will be applying for various grants to help develop the additional security features needed in SELinux, so that professors and grad students can contribute.
 
Also, every third Saturday will be hosting SELinux developers/sysadm meetings at the Computer School in downtown DC from 10am-1pm. If anyone here is in the area and wants to present/lead sessions or just come for fun, please join us. These will be technical sessions for developers, students and sysadm in agencies in the area to create a community of practice to help develop and deploy SELinux as a main e-gov platform in agencies (though some e-com people will also likely be present). The World Bank is sending a couple of their own technical people. I am also working with the UN and World Bank to place SELinux in other universities to replicate what we are doing at CPI, so a worldwide community of practice at major universities around the globe develops to help make SELinux robust.
 
Finally, I have organized a SELinux demo to senior e-gov officials (some very senior) with help from the GSA at NSF for Feb 19. (I am demonstrating 1 or 2 different Open Source/Free Software projects every month to show this stuff really exists, since some people still doubt it). Are there people here who can help with the demo? Also, you are welcome to just attend. The World Bank in DC has also asked for a demonstration, but a date has not been set.
 
I asked Grant in October at an Open Source Working Group session, if he wanted to see SELinux as the e-gov and e-com platform here and abroad, and he yes. So this is what I have been able to accomplish since then. If you have other suggestions on how to achieve this goal, please let me know.
 
Please contact me for more information or to participate (also if you just want to chat).
 
Best regards,
 
Tony Stanco
Senior Policy Analyst
Open Source/Free Software and e-Gov
Cyberspace Policy Institute
George Washington University
2033 K Street N.W., Suite 340
Washington, DC 20006
202-994-5513  Fax:202-994-5505
Stanco@seas.gwu.edu
Tony@FreeDevelopers.net
http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu