Red Hat is owned by IBM, which is one of the largest contractors for compute infrastructure and software for the US military. They’ve particularly taken an interest in ‘AI’ systems as automated target acquisition is now seen as a viable tactic following its use by Israel in Gaza.
Like bobo (rudely) said, Red Hat is what keeps the lights on for Fedora, even if its ownership is independent of RHEL. One cannot exist without the other.
Red Hat is owned by IBM, which is one of the largest contractors for compute infrastructure and software for the US military. They’ve particularly taken an interest in ‘AI’ systems as automated target acquisition is now seen as a viable tactic following its use by Israel in Gaza.
Like bobo (rudely) said, Red Hat is what keeps the lights on for Fedora, even if its ownership is independent of RHEL. One cannot exist without the other.
On top of the many large multi-billion contracts to the DoD (like $151B for missile tech a few months ago), you can also search direct contracts to individual agencies at fdps.gov (i.e. direct contracts exclusive to the US Army, >$100,000 - you can see that Red Hat actually maintains some of their combat systems).
IBM and Red Hat also have played a significant role in the genocide in Gaza.