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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Learning-management technology is an essential component for providing online classes. The systems manage every aspect of Web-based learning from registering for courses to receiving grades and ...

Homeland Security requirements in the USA, along with compatibility and budget demands everywhere, are putting Linux and open source into more and more public sector IT shops. Linux and Open Source ...

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 ...