OSRS Network
OSRS Network – Community Co-Funding and Co-Development for Open Engineering and Analytics
Member community for agencies, utilities, scientists, engineers and non-profits co-developing and co-funding open specifications, models, and reference implementations under NERF and open-source terms.
Join federal, utility and climate teams co-developing open specs and reference code, sharing RFP templates and data models, and collaborating through gated forums and working groups.
Who We Are
We are organizations conducting collaborative research and development, with the primary goal of providing advanced computing capabilities.
We are creators, innovators and stewards of open source software, open specifications and open methodologies.
What We Work On
We do collaborative R&D principally in:
- Software:
- Analytics and Algorithm Design
- Big Data and Distributed Computing at Scale
- Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
- Geospatial and Location Based Technology
- Temporal, BiTemporal, TimeSeries and Space-Time Processes
- Processes and Systems Engineering:
- Organizational Change Management and Planning
- Operational / Business Process Modeling
- Software Engineering and Needs Planning and Management
- System of Systems Engineering
Who Participates
Principally across government, defense, utilities, engineering and scientific communities. Technologies are released under open-source OSI licenses and NERF terms, as agreed upon by the members..
Our Affiliates
OSRS Open, OSRS Group, OSRS Systems, Jumpspaces, Utility.Live, Enviro.Site, S3curely, and all of our OSRS customers
Act Differently - Supporting Open R&D
As a primary member, OSRS Open is where OSRS Network members share the technologies being actively researched and developed. It is these technologies that will shape the future of computing. The OSRS Network contributes to OSRS Open, with a focus on collaborative and open ownership of all technologies. We believe that development is a community effort and that sharing resources is a key to enabling revolutionary changes.
Think Differently - Bridging the Gap
We are working through our member partners to help bridge the gap between operational needs, fiscal demands, changing business landscapes and emerging technologies. We focus on actionable approaches to help organizations incrementally adapt both in technology and in operational processes to ensure we can stay ahead of the curve. Our member partners are key influencers in how we approach our methodologies as we build an image of what the future could like as we blend technology into our society.
Build Differently - Meetings / Meetup Sponsor
Host a meeting of the minds to discuss open questions or what the latest "hot thing" might mean to the industry as a whole or just to your organization. Meet with folks to talk about and learn the bleeding edge ideas and how they can shape our industries.