The has worked with government agencies on numerous projects over the past 10 years. AJ Jaghori, a recently appointed member of the nonprofit's advisory council, and chief technology officer of defense contractor L-3 Communications, says the move toward mobile and computing is accelerating the trend of government using open source software, despite the sector's traditional reluctance.

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"I don't think the government is going to be where the commercial industry is in terms of utilizing open source software," Jaghori says, and "the higher you go in sensitivity of data, the longer it takes to adopt open source."

But Jaghori argues that open source can be more secure than proprietary software, and says use of open source in government is "significantly picking up."

He points to several examples. to develop OpenStack, software for building networks. "NASA, they're sort of the summa cum laude when it comes to open source," Jaghori says.