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The U.S. Army announced a contest for the best program for military purposes. The initiative was voiced by the head of information services of the U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson (Jeffrey Sorenson) at the summit Gov 2.0, held in Washington.Writes about this edition of InformationWeek.According to Sorenson, the soldiers and officers often write programs that help in fulfilling their tasks. But until now, such applications are used only in individual units, where he served as their creator. If by dying in battle or resigns, the development program was stopped.Now the military decided to organize a community development programs for the Army, in which they would share the source code and collaborate on the development of their applications. This proposed use launched in January 2009, the site Forge.mil, which is based on a well-known in the open-source community repository SourceFourge.com.To encourage development, the Ministry of Defense will open the contest "Apps for Army" ( "Program for the Army"). The soldiers will go to the site Forge.mil with personal smart card used in the U.S. Army for control admission. After logging in you can download its program and its source code, as well as assess the quality and usefulness to the army stationed at other programs.At the start of the contest of war inspired a similar Competition "Programs for America," in which U.S. citizens to offer their applications for processing government data. The competition was held in collaboration with O'Reilly Media.For more information on military competition programmers Sorenson promised to report in late September.

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