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 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 ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees ...

Nonprofit dedicated to expanding use of open source in government says progress is being made. The U.S. government is still very much a Windows world, but a group dedicated to bringing open source ...

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 nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr has written about ...

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 ...