BRL-CAD was developed by the US Army Research and Development Command, and released to the public in 2004. You can learn more about BRL-CAD, and their experience with releasing open source code in the presentation below. BRL-CAD: An Open Source Per...

Opticks is a image and video analysis tool that grew out of the USAF COMET program. It was created for the USAF by Ball Aerospace and subsequently released under the LGPLv2 license in 2007. You can learn more about how this project successfully started...

Ingres Corporation is helping the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in its global monitoring of earthquakes, including the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. The Ingres D...

Using open source software, the National Security Agency was able to gather a community of professional and amateur security experts together to make unprecedented security protections available to the public.

The CONNECT solution enables secure and interoperable electronic health information exchanges with other NHIN participating organizations, including federal agencies, state, tribal and local-level health organizations, and healthcare participants in the private sector. The NHIN will ultimately be a vast network of public and private-sector organizations sharing information with each other under clearly defined specifications, agreements and policies.

NASA released World Wind, a Java SDK for Google Earth-style visualizations under the NASA Open Source Agreement (NOSA).

by: Steve Evans, Published 04 November 2011 UK govt wants to dispel some of the myths around open source software The toolkit contains information on procuring open source software as well as guides to vendors and what sort of costs are likely to be ...

Opticks is a image and video analysis tool that grew out of the USAF COMET program. It was created for the USAF by Ball Aerospace and subsequently released under the LGPLv2 license in 2007. You can learn more about how this project successfully started...

OpenStack is a cloud infrastructure management tool that was co-developed by Rackspace and NASA. It is released under an Apache 2.0 license.

The VA released their venerable VistA electronic health record system under the Apache license.

OODT is "data middleware" that ties together distributed data sets for processing. It was created by NASA, and is now part of the Apache project.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/NASA-launches-open-source-web-site-1404210.html NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the US, has launched code.nasa.gov, a web site that will serve as the central source of information about...

The Federal IT dashboard is a Drupal site that tracks spending and effectiveness of IT projects. It was created by OMB as part of the TechStat program, and released under the GPLv2 license. It powers the Federal IT dashboard, of course.

DeveloperView helps web developers collaboratively tag the pages on their website. The FCC released this project under the GPL.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) released the Corporate Management Information System (CMIS) under the Open Software License.

BRL-CAD was developed by the US Army Research and Development Command, and released to the public in 2004. You can learn more about BRL-CAD, and their experience with releasing open source code in the presentation below. BRL-CAD: An Open Source Per...

The National Security Agency (NSA) created Accumulo, a database based on the BigTable whitepaper. It is now part of the Apache project.