[TOS] DoD Prioritizing Open Source!

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:19:10 +0000
Heidi Ellis <heidi.ellis at wne.edu> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Thought you might be interested in this news about the DoD and open source:
> 
> The CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense, John B. Sherman, has released a
> memo titled “Software Development and Open Source
> Software<https://dodcio.defense.gov/portals/0/documents/library/softwaredev-opensource.pdf>“.
>  This document identifies that The Department must follow an “Adopt, Buy,
> Create” approach to software which gives priority to open source software
> when looking for software solutions. This means that DoD must look to open
> source first, before creating in-house solutions for software projects. It
> also opens the door for DoD funding of open source software in the case where
> an application provides much of the needed functionality, but needs further
> development to meet the need.
> 
> Enjoy!
> Heidi

+1!

Thanks for sharing.

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