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An Update on Liquid Robotics

January 20, 2012 By
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    Liquid Robotics, a company led by CEO Bill Vass, is making huge inroads in sensor deployments in some of the most difficult to monitor parts of our planet.  That is, the vast, open ocean.  Liquid Robotics has developed a maritime robot that can travel thousands of miles, carry different payloads, energize itself from ocean wave movement, and transmit large amounts of data in real time to its users.  This surfboard looking robot … [Read more...]

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Liquid Robotics: Wave-powered robots serving diverse missions

June 16, 2011 By
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Liquid Robotics produces a wave-powered robot called the Wave Glider. This unmanned maritime vehicle (UMV) holds great promise in enhancing human understanding of the oceans, which will enable us to be better stewards of the essential resources it holds. Wave Glider UMV's will one day help us better observe climate, fish and other life in the ocean, and will help us search for other critical resources.  These robots can also help form grids of sensors … [Read more...]

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Bill Vass Joins Zafesoft Advisory Board

April 8, 2011 By
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Bill Vass is one of the smartest/sharpest minds I know. He is an incredible thinker with a deep understanding of human nature, physics, electronics, construction, art, philosophy, history and business. He is also one of the smartest technologists I know. When Bill decides to associate himself with something we should all take note. With that context in mind, Bill's joining of the ZafeSoft advisory board is cause for us all to focus on the potential of … [Read more...]

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IT Architecture as taught by Monty Python

January 8, 2010 By

One of my friends and mentors, Bill Vass, has consistently advised IT professionals to understand, respect and use the power of well formed IT architecture.  Bill has often reminded me and others that architecture is design.  If you have poor design, or if you have good design that is ignored, then the architecture is worthless or even counter productive.  If you have good, actionable design that is focused on mission needs and used by enterprise … [Read more...]

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A Recap of the 2009 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

June 5, 2009 By

I previously mentioned the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, which was held 17-21 May 2009.  I took lots of notes from the conference: enough, in fact, to fuel this blog for a long long time.  My associate Ryan Kamauff took even more (and more relevant) notes on the sessions there, and both of us kicked the tires on as many technology demos as we could.  This was a great education for us and the many other atendees there. I was also allowed to give a … [Read more...]

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The Number One Reason To Move To Open Source: Security

April 17, 2009 By

I just read Bill Vass's latest blog entry titled:  "The No. 1 Reason to Move to Open Source is to IMPROVE Security" Bill opens this article with: "If you are like me, and you have been involved in cryptography and Cyber Security for a long time, it's obvious to you that commercial open source code is more secure. As a matter of fact, in the late 90s, many of the Intelligence agencies mission systems and the DoD tactical systems moved to open source … [Read more...]

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A proposal for government certification of open source software

December 14, 2007 By

The US government runs some very complex systems and systems of systems.   Large integrations of networked equipment support  government workforce users on thousands of domains, including domains which hold very classified information. Keeping this information secure is a significant task.  Information must be kept confidential from disclosure to those who should not get it, must be kept uncorrupted/unchanged, and, the information must be always … [Read more...]

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