Canonical partners with organizations like the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Platform One to provide secure software and AI/ML capabilities. They have an entire DOD team.

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leereeves 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I can't find much info about that (especially with their website down). Is Canonical's work with the DOD more like Raytheon or Pizza Hut?

Raytheon: providing products specifically for the DOD

Pizza Hut: selling their usual product to the DOD

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culi 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Pizza Hut does not have a permanent DoD team. Canonical has actual contracts. You'll have to wait till their site is back up to read about it

https://canonical.com/blog/meet-the-canonical-federal-and-do...

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leereeves 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Pizza Hut has plenty of locations on military bases, each with a team dedicated to selling their product to the military.

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culi 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I see your point. To answer your original question, yes Canonical's military relationship is fundamentally different from Pizza Hut. More comparable to something like Palantir that sells SaaS or IaaS

	▲	leereeves 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So more like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and most big tech companies than either Pizza Hut or Raytheon? Perhaps most like Red Hat (who also sell to the DoD)? I think it would be unusual to call them all military contractors (as you called Canonical in another comment).