Projects executed with open source technologies in Brazilian Army and Air Force.

1. PostgreSQL in the Brazilian
Armed Forces
PDXPUG Day 2010
Professional Open Source
Software development, Outsourcing, IT consulting and Training

2. Agenda
• Free/Open source software and Brazil
• PostgreSQL in Army
• PostgreSQL in Air Force

3. Elephants and Armed Forces

4. FOSS and Brazil
• Wide use in companies and government
– Strong support in the current federal administration
– Communities
– Anti-piracy policies
• FOSS is now a state policy
– Federal law enforces its use in government organizations
• Many successuful cases in the last 10 years

5. Brazilian Army and FOSS
The adoption of FOSS is considered definitive for the
Brazilian Army.
Reasons for FOSS adoption
• Cost savings in medium and long term
• Better security, stability and availability offered by
FOSS
• Reduction of mandatory changes that closed models
periodically require
• Technical independence
• Development of local expertise
• System accountability
• Independence from a single supplier
* Army Migration Guide to FOSS, www.softwarelivre.gov.br/casos/Plano_Migracao_Soft_Livre_13FEV07.pdf

6. Brazilian Army
DEC - Department of Engineering
and Construction is responsible
for:
• guidelines
• planning
• coordination, and
• control of construction activities
and Army properties

7. Brazilian Army
Division of Military Building Works
Organization responsible for the activities of construction,
expansion, reform, adjustment, repair, restoration,
preservation, demolition and removal of military
installations.

8. Opus Project
Motivation
•
642 Army Units have 12ª RM
8ª RM
10ª RM
properties 7ª RM
•
Total of 1.817 properties
11ª RM 6ª RM
9ª RM
•
60.000 property
improvements 4ª RM
2ª RM 1ª RM
•
Demand for 5.000 building
works/year 5ª RM
•
Current capacity: 2.000 3ª RM
building works/year

9. Opus Project
Main objectives
– OPUS system aims to support the
functionalities of planning, control,
management and execution of all activities
of military building works
– Accessed by all units of the Brazilian Army
– Integrated Geographic Information System
• Google Earth integration
– Simplicity to use and access information
– 5.000 concurrent users
• Prepared for 50.000 concurrent users

10. Opus Project
Technologies
– Java Enterprise Edition 5
– PostgreSQL + PostGIS
– Linux CentOS 5.2
– Jboss AS
– GIS
• MapServer
• GeoServer
• OpenLayers
• GeoTools
• EJB3Spatial

11. Production infrastructure
Four Linux CentOS servers
- A cluster of two JBoss
servers
- Two PostgreSQL servers
(warm-standby)

12. Opus screenshot

13. Opus screenshot

14. Opus screenshot

15. OPUS screenshot

16. OPUS screenshot

17. FAB - Brazilian Air Force
• SDAB is the department responsible
for Logistics Support
• SDAB was pioneer to use
PostgreSQL and started using in
FORÇA AÉREA BRASILEIRA 2005
– Systems
• Sisub, Food Supply
• Sifare, Military garment ecommerce
• SIA, Procurement
DIRETORIA DE INTENDENCIA
SUBDIRETORIA DE
ABASTECIMENTO

18. FAB – SISUB Project
• System for supply acquision and
management of FAB's eateries
• Features
– Support to procurement
– Warehouse and stock control
– To standardize menus
– Control number and cost of meals per eatery
– Generate performance indicators

19. Brazilian Air Force
Situation before Sisub system
– Each quarter had to send monthly a
pile of forms
– A soldier had to retype all those forms
in a spreadsheet
– Unecessary overhead
– Information gap of one to two months
– Mistakes and lost of information
– Waste of time, money and trees

20. FAB – Sisub Project
Technologies
– EJB 3
– PostgreSQL
– Tapestry framework
– Slony
– JPA (Java Persistence API)
– Debian Linux
– Jasper Reports
– JBoss
– Python

21. FAB Projects
• System architecture
– 54 database servers distributed in 19 states
– Two-way replication system
– Central replication server for fallback
– A datamart for key performance indicators
– The main database size is 200 Gb

22. Sisub Project

23. Sifare Project screenshots

24. Sifare Project screenshots

25. SIA Project screenshots

26. SISUB Project screenshots

27. Sisub Project screenshots

28. Sisub Project screenshots

29. Results
• System Benefits
– Nutritional control of all meals
– Transparency in management
– Waste reduction
– Agility and less bureaucracy
– Online process management
– Automated performance indicators

30. Results
• Some numbers:
– ~100.000 meals daily
– 1.000 concurrent users (and counting)
• Cost reduction
– Improvement in process efficiency brings
savings of US$ 3 million / year
– Elimination of US$ 1 million in software license
costs

31. Results

32. Conclusion about PG and FOSS
• Reliable
• Adaptable
• Scalable
• Low costs

33. Questions?

34. Further information
Luis Dosso
www.dextra.com.br
dosso@dextra-sw.com
Gtalk/MSN: luis.dosso@gmail.com
Skype: luisdosso
Phone: +55 19 3256-6722