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 ...

Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sees such software, which anyone can tinker with, as a possible tool ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Defense Department is trying to take advantage of Web-based communities to speed up software development and reduce its costs. The U.S. Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to ...

Since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than three years ago, Russian technology companies and executives have been widely sanctioned for supporting the Kremlin. That includes Vladimir Kiriyenko, ...

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 ...

For the second time since 2001, the U.S. Navy is looking to increase its use of open-source software through a research and development program with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) and a ...