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US Dept. of Defense forges an open source path

Ongoing efforts to modernize the Department of Defense’s thinking about tech issues brought the Defense Information Services Agencies (DISA) to the cusp of launching forge.mil, DISA’s own version of the SourceForge open source model.
It may seem a little surreal to have the IT support team for the Department of Defense working closely with a company [...]

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), [...]