[jlgreco]

Hmm, who actually is the one to usually do this sort of thing?

Clearly it is a good idea, but I don't think it really makes sense for the Navy to do it for themselves. Isn't this more the sort of thing the NSA should be doing on the behalf of everyone else in government?

[hallowtech]

I think the Naval Research Laboratory is more than capable.

http://www.nrl.navy.mil

[mpyne]

NSA handles crypto, certainly (though even that is being pushed ahead by NIST), but the Navy already has been developing software (or overseeing its development) for decades.

They named a ship after Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, after all, and even today their Virginia-class SSNs already use Linux in some areas.