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Homeland Security Funds Software Security Initiative
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has invested $23.5 million in the development of an online resource to help software developers test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has contributed $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place (SWAMP), an online resource designed to help software developers test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
The SWAMP facility, which went online in February, is housed at the Morgridge Institutes for Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is jointly operated with Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DHS says SWAMP can lower the barrier for incorporating effective quality assurance into the software development lifecycle.
SWAMP is designed to improve software flaw identification performances through a standardized platform normalizing the results from multiple static analysis tools, and provides more than 400 open software packages for tool developers to test their tools against.
SWAMP can process 275 million lines of code a day, which "for the moment gives us plenty of breathing space," says DHS software assurance program manager Kevin Greene. He notes SWAMP is open to academics and commercial developers, but is targeted at government developers. "We really wanted to provide a way for the federal government to do this," Greene says. "Software development is expensive, and we need better capabilities."
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