While there are former U.Wisc. Condor staffers at Redhat now, and Redhat is a major contributor to the Condor project and has much invested in it, it is most definitely owned and operated by Miron Livny and the U.Wisc. computer science department. There's a large group of staff and students there that run the project and add the bulk of the new features to Condor. Anyhow, Condor is definitely an academia project with huge success that comes to my mind.

I work for an FPGA company. Both languages are going strong. You'd do well to learn both. My experience says if you want to work in government, especially military, it's pretty much dominated by VHDL. And Verilog is the prevalent language in telco and video design.