What is Code.mil?
Code.mil is an experiment in open source at the U.S. Department of Defense. The goal is to foster open collaboration with the developer community around the world on DoD open source projects. During the first phase, which launched in early 2017, we wrote a strategy for open sourcing code written by DoD employees, and then we called upon the OSS developer community to help us finalize that plan. You can read the official press release on the DoD website.
At the moment we’re getting our first open source projects published in the open. We are also calling on the entire DoD developer community to reach out to DDS to begin tracking all of the great OSS projects coming out.
In the future we will tackle issues around procuring source code and addressing how this strategy might facilitate technology transfer. The hope is that Code.mil will encourage conversation around these topics and allow anyone around the world to contribute knowledge and code for DoD projects.
This initiative is not intended to set DoD policy, but rather is exploring alternate ways to join the open source and free software communities. You can read more about the U.S. Federal Source Code Policy on the Code.gov web site.
Press
- Defense Digital Service revamps Code.mil with clearer, more accessible guidance ~FedScoop
- Amid congressional mandate to open source DoD’s software code, Code.mil serves as guidepost ~Federal News Radio
- Defense Department (Re)Launches Open Source Software Portal ~Nextgov
- Code.mil, the Pentagon’s open-source initiative, is live ~FedScoop