Canonical Ltd. Is registered in London, England. How is that a US organisation?

Pardon my ignorance, but why yet another fork? Aren’t there already hardened distributions suited for government use? To me the hard part seems to be the services needed for enterprise mgmt; software provisioning, policies, user acces mgmt, auditing/compliance scanning. Perhaps a good idea to look at parties that can also offer ‘corporate’ support at scale. https://ubuntu.com/gov perhaps?

There are plenty of plugins for the most niche tasks, languages, codepages, git/svn integration, etc. I like Compare plus for advanced diff functionality.