Archive for David Mihelcic

You are browsing the archives of David Mihelcic.

Defense launches online software development site

The Defense Information Systems Agency launched a Defense Department Web site on Jan. 23 that programmers already have used to collaborate online for developing open-source software, delivering its first software package this week, DISA’s chief technology officer said on Friday.
The collaborative open source software development site, called Forge.mil (although the site has a .com domain), [...]

Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense

As I listened to David Mihelcic, CTO with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency talk about the benefits of open source on Federal News Radio’s presentation of “Open Source Solutions – 2 Years In Review,” I couldn’t help but be impressed with just how far open source has come in the past decade.
When I first [...]