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Leading ALM platform chosen to become DISA’s FORGE Community for Software Development Teams, Agencies and System Integrators: At the DoD Open Technology Conference, CollabNet today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a combat support agency for the Department of Defense, selected CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet CUBiT to serve as the foundation for its internal software development community - DISA FORGE - where local and geographically distributed members jointly participate in the design, build and test processes of Defense Department software projects. DISA provides real-time information technology and communications support to the president, vice president, secretary of defense, the military services, and all combatant commands. Supporting these demands requires adaptable software development solutions for a highly distributed DISA development team. Working with Carahsoft Technology Corp., the industry’s leading government IT solutions provider and CollabNet reseller, DISA selected CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise as the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) framework to securely access and manage the source code, issues, releases, documents, discussion forums, wikis, reports, and other artifacts related to their projects. Additionally, CollabNet CUBiT was selected as the virtual private cloud management solution for teams to access build and test environments on-demand, from a pool of internally managed, secure computing resources. CollabNet delivers this strategic software development framework as a DISA Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for low cost and ease of deployment. After a thorough review of competitive products, DISA chose to implement CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet CUBiT because of the flexibility and the open platform that ensures forward compatibility as software development methodologies advance. Both products easily integrate with existing CollabNet installations throughout the Defense Department and are available as on-site and SaaS deployments, which are key to providing scalability while reducing costs. “DISA’s critical role in the Department of Defense requires a unique solution that enables development teams to securely build software from anywhere in the world,” said Tony De La Lama, CollabNet vice president of worldwide marketing and corporate strategy. “CollabNet is delighted to be selected as a partner that is at the forefront of this open source movement within DISA to shape the software development processes within the Department of Defense.” “Carahsoft and its vendor partners have been supporting the mission-critical IT needs of DISA for many years, and we are pleased to team with CollabNet to provide DISA with a proven solution for collaborative software development,” said Craig P. Abod, Carahsoft president.