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At this point Github is a national security risk. The amount of passwords, keys, hashes, code, data uploaded to that system is massive. I am sure that government agencies, contractors, multinational defense departments, etc are dumping things on there hourly. Will it get hacked? Get your popcorn out. It will happen.

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I'm pretty sure most, if not all, government agencies require on-premises hosting of code

There's e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/details/ these days. Azure and Google have government offerings as well. Safe to say neither would be bothering if the government didn't use cloud products these days.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/02/us-government-embraces-cloud/

Looks like even the CIA is using some AWS.

"U.S. government agencies are moving to cloud computing and away from their own data centers faster than private corporations"

Is GitHub even allowed for govt contractor use? I'd be surprised, but don't know.

For some projects, yes. The biggest well known US examples are the 18F open source efforts and http://code.gov / http://code.mil open source efforts, most of which are public, open source on GitHub.

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