The purpose of FaC is to take an industry concept of software defined anything/everything (SDX) and apply it to Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
The engineering principles used are: abstraction, modularity, portability encapsulation, and ephemeralness. The procedures/processes incorporated into the software are containerization, infrastructure-as-code, system-as-code.
Otoniel Venezuela – ovenezu@sandia.gov
Aaron Comen – acomen@sandia.gov
Brandon Klein – btklein@sandia.gov
John Miner – jgminer@sandia.gov
Miner, John Gifford and Klein, Brandon Thorin. FFRDC in a Bottle.. United States: N. p., 2018. Web
The Evolution of Federally Funded Research & Development Centers
CFR-2002 Title 48 Volume 1 Section 35.017-2
Copyright 2018 National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). Under the terms of Contract DE-NA0003525 with NTESS, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.
FaC is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0, which is an open source license. The FaC project wanted GPL-2.0 so the public can have the freedom to share and change the free software. FaC uses other open source technologies: Git, Docker, Wordpress, MySQL, and wp-cli
Please see attribution and third-party licenses to the listed technologies at: third-party-licenses