An influential advisory panel says the Defense Department should have access to the source code for software running on custom-built systems if officials want to improve security, performance and the speed at which DOD fields software updates. The Defense Innovation Board's "Ten Commandments of Software," unveiled during the board's April 26 meeting in Cambridge, MA, includes the recommendation that "every purpose-built DOD software system should include source code as a deliverable." The draft commandments could be modified, but they represent...
