Resource Engineering + Software Development Open Source

Summary Report of 2023 RFI on Open Source-Software Security Initiative

The RFI summary report consolidates submissions received from the open-source software community and details twelve activities that members of the OS3I plan—or have completed—in 2024-2025.

The report details recommendations from the open-source software community for federal government actions to strengthen security, including increasing the adoption of memory-safe programming languages, developing new tools, fostering public-private partnerships, and enhancing international collaboration.

It also discusses the establishment of the Open-Source Software Security Initiative (OS3I), its ongoing activities in 2024-2025, and its focus on securing open-source software foundations, supporting communities, and improving data sharing across the software supply chain.