NewsForge: Open Source Travels Bumpy Road at NIMA

“After years of research, managers at the military-backed
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) have concluded that open
source development styles may be a bit too, uh, creative for
traditional government work.

“Researchers have concluded that NIMA-backed National Technology
Alliance (NTA) should serve as a middleman for open source deals,
rather than expecting NIMA’s affiliated agencies to adapt to the
informal open source development process.

“NIMA has had its eye on open source options for quite some
time, but has backed into using open source software very
carefully, moving through test after test to see how it would fit
into its ecosystem…”

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