FEDweek IT

The Defense Information Systems Agency has announce its Forge.mil collaboration platform was upgraded with an additional suite of integrated tools to improve the user experience and drive access to DoD open source software.

DISA says it adopted CollabNet TeamForge for distributed application life-cycle management – ALM, as the core technology powering Forge.mil.

CollabNet TeamForge 7.2 offers a Subversion upgrade and Adaptive Planning Boards that allow for the visualization of information through a web interface and numerous usability improvements to increase productivity, the agency said.

It said additional features are planned for the coming months including the integration of Git, an open source tool and distributed version control system, and Gerrit, a web based code review system providing improved reports – with Lifecycle metric charts are planned for release in early 2016.