U.S. Department of Defense moves towards Open Source
February 1st, 2009
The Department of Defense has created their own version of SourceForge.net, which hosts code for military projects. According to David Mihelcic, the chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency, Forge.mil is modeled off of SourceForge.net but with much greater security. Obviously, it is not open to everyone, and is only available to DoD personel, but this is a big step for the open source movement. If anything, it shows how valuable a tool open source development can be, even in mission critical situations.