# Improving US Department of Defense Technology Acquisition and Development with Open Source

Guy Martin, Aaron Lippold

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Guy Martin, Aaron Lippold. Improving US Department of Defense Technology Acquisition and Development with Open Source. 9th Open Source Software (OSS), Oct 2011, Salvador, Brazil. pp.386-386, 10.1007/978-3-642-24418-6_34. hal-01570752

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Improving US Department of Defense
Technology Acquisition & Development with
Open Source

Guy Martin<fnref n="1" /> and Aaron Lippold<fnref n="2" />

In late 2008, DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), the global IT
arm of the US Department of Defense, embarked upon a project to create an
internal collaboration and software application lifecycle management system.
Beyond simply fielding yet another tool, the Forge.mil effort was designed to
fundamentally change the way the DoD developed and acquired software tech-
nology and systems. The method of this change was the application of Open
Source principles inside of the larger DoD community, including ideas such as:
meritocracy, code sharing, as well as Agile and collaborative software develop-
ment. This workshop will explore where the program has succeeded, as well as
areas that need to be improved. It is hoped that participants will be able to
bring perspectives from their work in the external Open Source world to this
discussion.

<footnote n="1">¹ CollabNET, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="2">² Forge.mil, USA</footnote>