Pentagon Pushes Crowdsourced Manufacturing - NYTimes.com
►http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/pentagon-pushes-crowdsourced-manufacturing
The crowdsourcing effort will rely on a software initiative, called Vehicleforge.mil, which will be a Web portal for gathering, sharing and testing ideas.
Earlier in the week, researchers from the company, M.I.T. and the Pentagon agency, Darpa, discussed the project and its potential significance for the military and beyond.
The near-term target, they said, is to collaborate on a design for an amphibious vehicle for the Marines.
Crowdsourced software design, of course, is old hat. That is the open-source model that gave us the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server years ago.
But what is different about the Vehicleforge.mil project is that it is essentially a software “engine” that contributors use to plug in simulated components. Then, the new part or subsystem can be tested, virtually.
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