
The Department of Defense (DoD) launched Code.mil, an open source initiative allowing software developers to collaborate on unclassified code written in support of DoD projects, the department announced Thursday.DoD is working with the open source platform GitHub to experiment with fostering more collaboration between global private sector software developers and federal employees for software projects built within the Defense Department. The URL of Code.mil directs users to an online repository that will house code written for a variety of projects…