milOS

10 rules for milOS, the operating system for conflicts of the future.

1. Hardware agnostic. No more old laptops, scotch-taped USB drives, or Pelican cases to wheel around. milOS works on the world’s best supercomputer and on a jailbroken iPhone.
2. Cloud based. Yes, classified information lives in the cloud in milOS.
3. Multiplayer. milOS connects blue-to-blue (intra-gov), blue-to-green (liaison sharing), and seamlessly jumps between classified and unclassified environments.
4. Remote OK. milOS works inside of a SCIF, in the field, and on a sensor in the middle of nowhere.
5. Constantly defrags. Fragmentation of institutional memory is rampant in the defense bureaucracy. milOS treats intelligence like memory, requiring smart (de)allocation and defragging.
6. Interrupt driven. Wars of the past were event-driven, with listeners constantly scanning for a change in the state-machine of national security. milOS is interrupt driven, able to process a fast response routine each time an interrupt is triggered.
7. Ctrl-alt-del. milOS has system utilities that anyone building for it can use for process control, resource monitoring, or audit.
8. Human UI. The user interface of milOS is just as friendly with a brain chip implant in a soldier as it is with a mouse/keyboard.
9. Public APIs. Anyone can build applications for milOS from the ground up, or just call things via APIs. It’s built for builders.
10. Government kernel. The kernel of milOS can and should be built by the government. It will require effort similar to the Manhattan project.