[SatNews] Teams and individuals now have the opportunity to dicuss and work together online...

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s newest capability in the Forge.mil family of services is Forge.mil Community. Community is a social networking layer that provides additional capabilities to SoftwareForge and ProjectForge. Forge.mil Community will help users to connect, collaborate, share information and manage content and to provide a more holistic view of Forge.mil activities. While project teams on Forge.mil tended to focus on their individual projects, the Forge.mil program office recognized a need to improve the communication between teams and individuals sharing a common purpose and those discussing and working to solve similar challenges that transcend a single project or set of projects. The ability to organize within a group or sub-community and then associate a project or a set of projects provides a broader view of software development activity to all stakeholders. Forge.mil Community allows for the formation of groups built around communities of interest, organizations, mission areas, or specific technologies as well as groups created around topics of interest to the information technology acquisition community.