Aiming to save money, prevent duplication and enhance transparency, the White House Office of Management and Budget is instituting a new policy designed to ensure that custom-developed federal source code is shared across the federal government for reuse purposes. In an Aug. 8 memo for the heads of departments and agencies signed by federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott and U.S. Chief Acquisition Officer Anne Rung, OMB lays out a policy that agencies must follow before obtaining custom-developed code, including...
