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In-Q-Tel wants to talk to people interested in open source software and national security
In-Q-Tel, the innovation and venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has published several open source themed posts recently, including "Toward Secure Code Reuse" and, most recently, one about GitGeo, a tool it developed that analyzes the geography of developers associated with a GitHub repository.
The federal government is giving away free .gov domains to all official U.S. government entities
The DotGov Program, which administers .gov top-level domain assignments to official U.S. government entities, now offers the service for free.
How NASA and the open source community helped a helicopter achieve lift-off on Mars
GitHub has a great write-up of how open source community contributions played a key role in helping NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieve lift-off on Mars.
Biden nominates Robin Carnahan to be next GSA administrator
President Biden has nominated digital government innovator Robin Carnahan as the next administrator of General Services Administration.
Backpacks, bean bags and blue jeans: My take on 'tech titans,' 18F and USDS
Apparently, in 2021, there are people who still refuse to recognize the holistic, energetic and sustainable impact 18F and the U.S. Digital Services has -- and continues to have -- on keeping the federal government digital services industry and profession relevant and attractive to highly-qualified designers, developers, product and project managers and anyone generally interested in well-functioning U.S. Government technology.