DoD

Halfway through a 90-day trial, the Department of Defense says it has stopped hundreds of attempted intrusions it would have missed otherwise without its pilot program of sharing classified information about cyber threats with military contractors.

It's not true that the whole U.S. cyber-defense strategy is to find the compound where the Internet is hiding and send Seal Team 6 in to kill it. But that's not too far from the few plans it does have.

The Pentagon has reopened an investigation involving more than 250 Department of Defense employees who are alleged to have subscribed to child pornography sites using their government e-mail IDs and physical military addresses.

The Department of Defense issues a memo outlining guidance for using open source software and for contributing code back to the community.

In recent weeks, the military has launched a collaborative platform called Forge.mil for its developers to share software, systems components and network services. The agency also signed an agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to allow 50 internally developed workforce management applications to be licensed to other government agencies, universities and companies.

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for researchers who can build applications that enable family members to interact with parents serving far from home in the military.