Lockheed Martin's Social Networking Platform's Not Rocket Science

Lockheed Martin, the giant defense contractor, is wary of letting its staff use social networking. Probably something to do with secrecy. It also knows its staff are people, so it's built its own social network structure, dubbed Eureka Streams, and is now releasing it open-source for ... well, pretty much anyone to use.

The idea first surfaced back in the middle of 2009, when Lockheed Martin began to talk about its internal efforts to develop a social networking structure. Writing in a July...