EN: Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT)
DE: Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation (BIT)
FR: Office fédéral de l’informatique et de la télécommunication (OFIT)
IT: Ufficio federale dell’informatica e della telecomunicazione (UFIT)

The Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunications (FOITT) is the largest IT service provider of the federal administration. It supplies roughly 50,000 workstation systems, develops together with the administrative units custom-made, secure and user-friendly IT solutions, and operates more than 1,000 specialised applications mainly in its own modern data centres.

The demand for IT solutions from our customers is continuously increasing. At the same time, FOITT faces constrained resources. Therefore, the development of specialised applications must be optimised so that the growing demand can be managed and costs can be reduced.

To achieve this, we place a strong focus on the standardisation of services: thanks to standardised building blocks that can be reused for the development of new solutions, client applications should be delivered more efficiently in the future.

This repository is managed by the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication to publish open-source code and files from the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication.

Following the introduction of the Federal Act on the Use of Electronic Means to Carry Out Official Tasks (EMOTA), the Federal Administration is now disclosing the source code of its software as open source. This states that anyone should be able to use, improve and distribute the relevant software free of charge.

These are other FOITT open-source software projects that are actively maintained:

• Oblique is the unified frontend ecosystem of the Swiss Confederation — encompassing all libraries, tools, guidelines and services that shape how we design, build, and maintain user interfaces. It provides a cohesive foundation for consistent, maintainable and high-quality frontend development across all projects.
• The Java Enterprise Application Platform (jEAP) provides a suite of libraries and tools designed to assist in developing Java-based software applications based on Spring Boot.

The following links might also be of interest:

• The list of open source projects of the entire federal administration is continuously updated.
• Many additional existing federal repositories can also be found on GitHub.