VehicleFORGE

[Matt Maier]

Hey OSE,

DARPA has created an entire open source development environment for vehicles. It includes basically all the tools you need to collaboratively design AND test a cyber-electro-mechanical system. The software suite should be robust enough that, at the end of the development process, you will have a production-ready vehicle (not just some weak prototype). 

They are testing the tools with the FANG design challenge. Anyone can register and compete to design an infantry fighting vehicle for the Marines.

More importantly, DARPA is open sourcing the software, so if this works it could become a powerful tool for exactly what OSE is doing. No more cobbling together unrelated design and collaboration tools. 

I wrote it up in more detail on my blog http://openalia.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/vehicleforge-darpas-open-source-hardware-competition-is-open-for-registration/

Also, I started Team Openalia and anyone is welcome to join. 

Cheers,

Matt