The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military
contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet
of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.
While the US military has been a growing user of Linux, the contract might
also have something to do with the swabbies learning from the mistakes made
by the flyboys and girls in the US Air Force. After a malware attack on the
Air Force's Windows-based drone-control system last year, there has been a
wholesale move to Linux for security reasons.
"If I would need to select between Windows XP and a Linux based system while
building a military system, I wouldn't doubt a second which one I would
take," F-Secure's security researcher Mikko Hypponen pointed out at the
time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/08/us_navy_linux_drones/
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