US Department Of Defense Goes Open Source
The Department of Defence has put up a site based on SourceForge.net. As for now they only have a few projects and contributing to those projects is restricted to feds with high security clearance, ie: U.S. military, DoD government civilians and DoD contractors for Government authorized use.
Forge.mil is a family of services provided to support the DoD's technology development community. The system currently enables the collaborative development and use of open source and DoD community source software. These initial software development capabilities are growing to support the full system life-cycle and enable continuous collaboration among all stakeholders including developers, testers, certifiers, operators, and users.
From Forge.mil[link]
Matt Asay of Cnet.com wrote about Forge.mil noting:
The Defense Department, which has been pushing hard to get involved in open source for some time as a consumer, is now involved as a developer. In just a few years, open source has gone from being "risky" to one of the best ways to mitigate risk.
From News.Cnet.com[link]
