Forge.mil News

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2012 News

• January 31, 2012 Forge.mil Project Director named in 2012 Federal 100 Winners

  Celebrating Government Leadership - The Federal 100 Awards recognize government and industry leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community—individuals who have gone above and beyond their daily responsibiliies and have made a difference in the way technology has transformed their agency or accelerated their agency's mission. Professionals from government and industry will be honored for their efforts in affecting change, progress and efficiency in determining how the federal government acquires, develops and manages IT. See the list of winners here.

2011 News

• October 15, 2011 Feds@Work: Making the DOD Elephant Dance

  Discussion on changes in DoD to improve software development. Originally published at FedInsider

• November 2, 2011 Hanscom hosting Forge.mil Testing Services pilots

  An update on Hanscom Electronic Systems Center's role in the development of Forge.mil Testing.

• June 20, 2011 Forge.mil: A DoD Innovation for the Enterprise

  Learn more about Forge.mil, one of the strategic initiatives of the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Find out what Forge is, what we have learned, who is seeing success and what's on the horizon for Forge.mil.

• May 16, 2011 Social Networking Comes to Forge.mil

  Read how the Forge.mil Community site allows for greater and richer collaboration between software developers and provides a means to discover and connect with other experts working similar issues and challenges.

• April 18, 2011 DISA Launches the Forge.mil Community Site

  DISA announces the newest capability in the Forge.mil existing family of services to support the DoD's Information Technology Acquisition Community.

• April 5, 2011 Hanscom ESC Embraces New Approach for Software Development and Testing

  The Hanscom Electronic Systems Center is playing a major role in the adoption of Forge.mil as a means to develop and deliver software within the DoD and the development of Forge.mil Testing Services.

• February 14, 2011 Open-Source Government

  Read how government organizations to include the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and NASA are implementing open source in support of President Obama's commitment to a more transparent and open government.

• February 2, 2011 DISA's New Focus: Supporting Mobility

  DISA's CIO discusses with Government Computer News DISA's progress towards virtualization, the role of cloud computing, and the continued development of enterprise services and offerings.

• February 1, 2011 Software Developers Share Resources Online to Speed Systems to the Warfighter

  Forge.mil provides the key ingredient to 'building critical technology systems faster, cheaper, and better'. Read how Forge.mil is encouraging change in software development, program management and the collaboration and reuse of shared code within the Defense Department.

2010 News

• November 10, 2010 Open development delivers unexpected benefits

  Forge.mil Project Director discusses with Government Computer News (GCN) the benefits of Forge.mil and the Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) in terms of time and cost savings for both large and small project efforts.

• March 22, 2010 Forge.mil Project Director and Community Manager named in 2010 Federal 100 Winners

  The Federal 100 awards have been around for 21 years, and they are an annual testament to the constancy of the government information technology community - and its ongoing vitality. The Forge.mil Project Director and the Forge.mil Open Source Community Manager were name to this year's list for their work on a program that is revolutionizing information sharing at the Defense Department by enabling faster development and deployment of new capabilities that support the department's emphasis on network centricity.

• March 18, 2010 Forge.mil selected as 2010 Excellence.Gov Finalist

  The Excellence.Gov Awards Program recognizes those federal programs - and their managers - who have achieved exceptional results in the management of IT to support the government's mission and serve citizens.

• January 13, 2010 DISA's Next Step in Collaborative Software Development is ProjectForge

  Arlington, Va. - The Defense Department's newest collaborative software development tool just entered limited operating availability capacity for individual DoD projects or programs. ProjectForge is the newest offering in the Defense Information Systems Agency's family of services enabling continuous collaboration among DoD software developers, testers, certifiers, operators, and users. Its private project portals expand on SoftwareForge's capabilities in hosting public projects for software reuse and collaborative development.

2009 News

• September 15, 2009 Forge.mil receives award at InformationWeek 500

  Borrowing a page from the open source community, the Department of Defense's Defense Information Systems Agency launched Forge.mil almost a year ago to facilitate software sharing among U.S. military branches.

• August 10, 2009 Forge.mil is setting an example again

  Federal Computer Week (FCW) describes the evolution of information sharing within the DoD and how Forge.mil is setting the example.

• July 27, 2009 Forge.mil named to "Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009"

  Government Computer News (GCN) describes how Forge.mil embraces the Web's full potential with a focus on bringing net-centric speed to software development.