Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, have proposed a bill with the intent to strengthen the U.S. government’s security defenses against open source software vulnerabilities. The introduction of the Securing
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The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) has issued a draft report that calls for the White House to form a task force that would help define a public-private initiative focused on
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IBM has delivered its highest Quantum Volume by combining software and hardware techniques to improve overall performance, the company reported on Thursday. IBM has also upgraded its 27-qubit client-deployed systems to achieve
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center's Crane Division has launched an effort to develop open source software with the goal of helping the U.S. military modernize warfighter platforms and tools.
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The U.S. Air Force released a document outlining the service’s approach to implement principles to provide airmen access to secure, visible, accessible, understandable, linked and trusted data using open data services technologies and architectural design patterns. The
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The Defense Department has introduced an open source program in a move to facilitate collaboration on unclassified code among software developers in the federal government and private sector. The Code.mil initiative is
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The General Services Administration’s 18FÂ organization has produced a new guidebook that contains resources and instructions on how to develop agile software, open source software and modular contracting methods. Mark Headd and Robin
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The White House has released a policy that aims to facilitate exchange and reuse of custom-built source code across federal agencies. Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott wrote in a blog post published Monday
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The General Services Administration’s 18F organization has developed a tool that aims to help federal information security personnel continuously update their system security plans with code in an effort to manage risks
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The Office of Management and Budget has started to collect public comments on a draft policy that aims to facilitate reuse and sharing of federal custom software code across government agencies in an effort
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