DISA taps CollabNet to manage DoD cloud software development

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This week, the Defense information Systems Agency (DISA) announced that they will be using Collabnet tools to manage application development for RACE. The Computerworld article said that DISA will use SourceForge Enterprise ALM service to manage source code, releases and documents in software development projects. Rob Vietmeyer, DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Chief Engineer said that the agency also plans to test CollabNet‘s Cubit tool set to manage the Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) cloud computing infrastructure. DISA looks to use Cubit to manage and distribute the image libraries in RACE so that images can automatically be moved between development, testing and operational environments.

Collabnet is a key technology of Dataline’s SOA-R solution and will be discussing their RACE program activities at today’s CloudCamp Federal.

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