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and saving taxpayers money. </font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">White House have released for public comment a draft policy to support improved access to custom software
code developed for the Federal Government.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 38px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: large; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">As part of the Second Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, the White
House policy would "require new software developed specifically for or by the Federal Government to be made available for sharing and re-use across Federal agencies." </span><br>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Details at </font><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/09/leveraging-american-ingenuity-through-reusable-and-open-source-software" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/09/leveraging-american-ingenuity-through-reusable-and-open-source-software</a> </div>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><a href="https://sourcecode.cio.gov/SourceCodePolicy.pdf" target="_blank">https://sourcecode.cio.gov/SourceCodePolicy.pdf</a> </div>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Share your thoughts/ideas through </font><a href="https://sourcecode.cio.gov" target="_blank">https://sourcecode.cio.gov</a> </div>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:large">Best wishes,</span></div>
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<div style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Suchith</font></div>
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