DOD open-sources more than 1M lines of code
The U.S Department of Defense is not only encouraging use of open source applications, it recently open-sourced an enterprise human resources application that has over a million lines of code.
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The Department of Defense issues a memo outlining guidance for using open source software and for contributing code back to the community.
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Automation of security is a concept with momentum this year as some of the larger federal agencies, including the DoD, NSA, Agriculture and Energy, are pushing for a new direction beyond the current FISMA audit mandate for compliance.
Military enlists open source 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.
Report: Hackers break into Pentagon's fighter jet project
Hackers broke into U.S. Department of Defense computers and downloaded terabytes of data containing design information about the Joint Strike Fighter, a $300 billion stealth fighter currently under development, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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