It took a while to track down, but here's the scoop from the team:
Yes, .NET products/apps can be purchased by the DoD. DISA’s concern is with apps that are not local, essentially not trusted. It is fine to build and sell .NET apps into this environment as long as they are approved and locally installed by IT.
I am still waiting on the NSA Small Business Outreach Office to get back to me, but I suspect they will confirm, if they ever get back to me!
So I understand this to mean that -
As long as the executables are installed by their IT department and are running within their controlled environment, not accessing processes outside their control, there should be no problem.
Any whitepapers/outlines that you know of
Something official to show my boss would be great. . .I don't want to program J2EE. . . though Java EE 5/EJB 3 is pretty cool :)
I’m not aware of [any official whitepapers]. I would also say that if .NET were restricted, the DOD/DISA would explicitly state it. There is a .NET STIG posted at http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/checklist/index.html which infers that .NET can be used in the DoD.
.Net and DoD/NSA acceptance
jonbon
It took a while to track down, but here's the scoop from the team:
Yes, .NET products/apps can be purchased by the DoD. DISA’s concern is with apps that are not local, essentially not trusted. It is fine to build and sell .NET apps into this environment as long as they are approved and locally installed by IT.
-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)
Alexey_Kiev
Bingo!!!
Thats exactly what I was looking for!!!
Thanks for the research!
Erik van Noorden
Thanks for the response.
I am still waiting on the NSA Small Business Outreach Office to get back to me, but I suspect they will confirm, if they ever get back to me!
So I understand this to mean that -
As long as the executables are installed by their IT department and are running within their controlled environment, not accessing processes outside their control, there should be no problem.
Any whitepapers/outlines that you know of
Something official to show my boss would be great. . .I don't want to program J2EE. . . though Java EE 5/EJB 3 is pretty cool :)
califman1849
Hi,
This is from the government vertical team:
I’m not aware of [any official whitepapers]. I would also say that if .NET were restricted, the DOD/DISA would explicitly state it. There is a .NET STIG posted at http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/checklist/index.html which infers that .NET can be used in the DoD.
-brenda (ISV Buddy Team)