Australian Defence Force (ADF) and U.S. military personnel work side-by-side in the Air Operations Centre (AOC) during exercise Talisman Saber 07. The U.S. Pacific Command is working with the ADF, ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is releasing as open source code a suite of internally developed administration applications, named the Open Source Corporate Management System (OSCMIS), ...

The Defense Department's guidance on the military use of open-source software has been a long time in coming, and should ease the widespread concerns in the military about open source-use, observers ...

The public launch of the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR) was recently announced during a presentation at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) hosted by the ...

Publicly available code has fewer security holes because more programmers work on the free programs than the number writing proprietary programs for commercial firms. Open source software, freely ...

The Open Technology Development road map, a recently authored government report, advises Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Sue Payton to integrate a comprehensive open source strategy into defense ...

Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees such software, which anyone can tinker with, as a possible tool ...

The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Navy's IT portfolio has endorsed the use of open source software. In a memo via the Open Source Software Institute, Navy CIO Robert Carey gave ...

Learning-management technology is an essential component for providing online classes. The systems manage every aspect of Web-based learning from registering for courses to receiving grades and ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has launched Forge.mil, a software project management site that will host the military's public open source software projects. Inspired by SourceForge, the new site was ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...