Strategic Investment in Open Hardware for National Security

Free and open-source hardware (FOSH) development has been shown to increase innovation reduce economic costs. This article reviews the opportunity use FOSH as a sanction undercut imports exports from target criminal country. A formal methodology is presented for selecting strategic national investments in improve both security global safety. In this methodology, first country that threatening or safety identified. Next, top well potentially other importing countries (allies) are quantified. Hardware identified could imports/exports Finally, methods support enumerated production commons-based peer strategy. To demonstrate how theoretical method works practice, it applied case study current military aggressor nation, who also fossil-fuel exporter. The results show there numerous existing opportunities develop new energy conservation renewable fossil-fuel-energy demand. Widespread deployment would concomitant pollution, human health impacts, environmental desecration cut financing of operations.