Pentagon experiments with open data strategy in new site

"The Defense Department isn’t known for being the most open agency in federal government, but its Digital Service team is seeking to change that through a new website it officially launched Wednesday, data.mil.

The DOD may have had an open data program but it hadn’t gotten a lot of attention, said data.mil site creator Mary Lazzeri to FedScoop. Defense Digital Service Director Chris Lynch says the goal with data.mil is to showcase a potential open data strategy to the department while collaborating with startups in the field to create interesting stories with the data instead of just posting it online.

The DDS created data.mil 'to sort of jumpstart the notion within the Pentagon that open data is worth investing in,' said Lazzeri, who is part of the Defense Digital Service."