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Ozone Widget Framework developed by the NSA (github.com/ozoneplatform)
54 points by lee337 on Dec 23, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments


I assume this is for testing purposes only: https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/ca.ke... :-)


Indeed.

https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey...

Caveat: While browsing repositories you can press 't' and fuzzy-search filenames.


Check out their website as well (which is buried in the project's readme): http://owfgoss.org/


My buddy has been raving about this for years. He uses it extensively for geospatial stuff for the Intel community. I'm stoked to finally get a hold of it.


What has he said about it?


For those curious about the role the NSA played in this framework:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&#...;


Thanks. I was reading through the github readme going 'Well, that's cool... but why did they build this?'. Seemed to me before understanding why they needed it/built it, that it would have been time better spent working on a new crypto engine :).


It's great that this was open sourced. Quite impressive what you've accomplished. For me to use it I'd also have to pay ExtJS $2500 and/or some combination of a fixed fee with royalty rights which I just can not do.


That hopefully will change. "At the Dec 2012 OWF GOSS board, the board agreed to a 6-month re-factoring effort which would re-implement using OSGi on the back end and eliminate the dependency on ExtJS for the front-end. This work will be done on GitHub and will be completely transparent to the community."


When I was working with this (2+ years ago), it was mostly for integration with databases in DIA's GCCS-J program. Honestly, for the amount of data they need to deal with, it just didn't work (common operational picture stuff).


Curious any OWF developers have a connector they can release to use NSA developed Accumulo NoSQL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo


Looks like the project is specifically mentioned in the ndaa. That's enough to peak my interest.




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