Mil-OSS connects and empowers an active community of civilian and military open source software and hardware developers across the United States.

This grassroots movement is a collection of diverse patriots that work for and with the Department of Defense and believe in adopting open technology innovation philosophies to effectively defend our nation.

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A lot goes on between the annual Working Groups, take a look to see what has been happening around the Military Open Source community.

Articles, Papers & Presentations

Be prepared for your next OSS-related briefing. We've collected quite a few papers and presentations on OSS to help you promote OSS.

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OSS Projects in the DoD

Find an un-classified open source project already underway in the military. If you know about a new project, please let us know.

Marines swap Microsoft for Linux OS on Northrop Grumman radar

Marines swap Microsoft for Linux OS on Northrop Grumman radar

Shortly after Northrop Grumman got approval to begin building a new breed of mobile radar systems the Marine Corps asked the defense contractor to change the operating system to Linux for greater future compatibility

Student Hackathon in St. Louis Hosted by Midwest Chapter

Mil-OSS Event

Midwest Chapter of Mil-OSS hosting Student Hackathon in St. Louis, Missouri February 21-22 for high-school and college students. Prizes will be awarded within within each age group. Registration closes on February 13th.

" 'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'. "

Richard M. Stallman

Mil-OSS exists to improve technology development and innovation across the DoD by connecting and empowering the active community of patriotic open source developers and solution providers, improving use of the taxpayers' funds through thorough requirements extraction, wise execution, and increasing the speed new technologies enable the Warfighter.

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