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Lockheed Martin To Release Social Media Tool As Open Source Software
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| Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that it will release a
| proprietary social media tool under an open source software license. The
| announcement, made at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, is the first
| of its kind for Lockheed Martin.
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http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2009/070709_LMtoReleaseSocialMediaOpenSource.html
Recent:
DOD launches site to develop open-source software
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| Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers
| can work on open-source software projects specifically for DOD, David
| Mihelcic, the chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems
| Agency (DISA), said today.
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| The new site, named Forge.mil, is based on the public site SourceForge.net
| which hosts thousands of open-source projects, Mihelcic said at an AFCEA
| Washington chapter lunch in Arlington, Va.
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http://fcw.com/articles/2009/01/30/dod-launches-site-to-develop-open-source-software.aspx
Sourceforge's Mirrored Content Gets a Hand
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| With over 180,000 open source projects in its repository, SourceForge.net has
| a lot of files it needs to track and serve.
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| It can become a challenge to manage all those downloads. For the most part,
| Sourceforge relies on a system of globally distributed mirror sites that help
| to deliver open source application files and programs to users.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3799916/Sourceforges+Mirrored+Content+Gets+a+Hand.htm
Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense
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| As I listened to David Mihelcic, CTO with the U.S. Defense Information
| Systems Agency talk about the benefits of open source on Federal News Radio's
| presentation of "Open Source Solutions - 2 Years In Review," I couldn't help
| but be impressed with just how far open source has come in the past decade.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10126839-16.html
Related:
Ball Aerospace Launches Opticks Open Source Software
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| Opticks is used by scientists and analysts within the Department of Defense
| Intelligence Community to analyze remote sensing data and produce actionable
| intelligence. Opticks supports Imagery, Motion Imagery, Synthetic Aperture
| Radar (SAR), and multi-spectral and hyper-spectral remote sensing data. Ball
| Aerospace expects Opticks to increase the demand for remote sensing data and
| broaden the features available in existing remote sensing software.
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| "Ball Aerospace's Opticks demonstrates how government-sponsored code
| originally developed by a contractor can be maximized by releasing it as open
| source," said John M. Weathersby, executive director of the Open-Source
| Software Institute. "This creative business development effort is consistent
| with the forward-thinking strategy outlined in the Department of Defense's
| Open Technology Development roadmap."
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM08410122007-1.htm
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