Download or read book DOD Weapon Systems Software Acquisition and Management Study Volume I Mitre Findings and Recommendations Volume II Supporting Material written by Mitre Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DoD Weapon Systems Software Acquisition and Management Study Volume II Supporting Material written by A. Asch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 is organized into four major sections: Section 1 contains introductory information including the purpose and goals of the study; Section 2 contains a summary of major findings and concludes with a list of high payoff areas for DoD action; Section 3 presents MITRE's recommended DoD actions in the areas of software performance specification, software acquisition planning, software technology, and personnel; and Section 4 includes a brief outline for implementing the recommended actions during Phase II of the study. Appendices to Volume I are limited only to that information required to understand the content of the four major sections and to initiate the recommended actions. Volume II is organized into four major sections: Section 1 contains introductory information; Section 2 provides further detail on the 14 systems interviewed; Section 3 contains a brief summation of the major findings and recommendations of the reports and workshops reviewed during the study; and Section 4 includes a software acquisition and management bibliography. Appendix A is a copy of the questionnaire used by the MITRE team during the weapon systems interviews.
Download or read book DOD Weapon Systems Software Acquisition and Management Study Volume I MITRE Findings and Recommendations written by A. Asch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is increasing concern about the problems of software cost growth and overruns, schedule delays, and unreliability currently experienced in some weapon systems software efforts. There is also an increasing recognition of the importance of the software roles in the overall mission effectiveness of major DoD weapon systems. These factors led to the Assistant Secretaries of Defense (Installation and Logistics, and Comptroller) and the Director of Defense Research and Engineering issuing a memorandum on 3 December 1974 to establish a joint OSD/Service Software Steering Committee. The charter of the Software Steering Committee is to oversee a two-phase study program to find methods for controlling increasing costs, improving the quality, and minimizing the adverse impact of poor software performance on weapon systems effectiveness. The MITRE Corporation and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University were requested to conduct separate, but coordinated, four-month studies in support of the first phase of the Software Steering Committee study program. This report presents the results of the MITRE study.
Download or read book MITRE Systems Engineering Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Reports Annual Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sections 1-2. Keyword Index.--Section 3. Personal author index.--Section 4. Corporate author index.-- Section 5. Contract/grant number index, NTIS order/report number index 1-E.--Section 6. NTIS order/report number index F-Z.
Download or read book Computers Control Information Theory written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents written by United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microprocessors in Military and Industrial Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Department of Defense written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the military, information technology (IT) has enabled profound advances in weapons systems and the management and operation of the defense enterprise. A significant portion of the Department of Defense (DOD) budget is spent on capabilities acquired as commercial IT commodities, developmental IT systems that support a broad range of warfighting and functional applications, and IT components embedded in weapons systems. The ability of the DOD and its industrial partners to harness and apply IT for warfighting, command and control and communications, logistics, and transportation has contributed enormously to fielding the world's best defense force. However, despite the DOD's decades of success in leveraging IT across the defense enterprise, the acquisition of IT systems continues to be burdened with serious problems. To address these issues, the National Research Council assembled a group of IT systems acquisition and T&E experts, commercial software developers, software engineers, computer scientists and other academic researchers. The group evaluated applicable legislative requirements, examined the processes and capabilities of the commercial IT sector, analyzed DOD's concepts for systems engineering and testing in virtual environments, and examined the DOD acquisition environment. The present volume summarizes this analysis and also includes recommendations on how to improve the acquisition, systems engineering, and T&E processes to achieve the DOD's network-centric goals.
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Download or read book Guidelines for Successful Acquisition and Management of Software Intensive Systems Weapon Systems Command and Control Systems Management Information Systems Volume 1 Version 2 0 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Guidelines cover the gamut of software-intensive systems acquisition and management activities, from pre-program strategic planning to post-deployment software support. They are divided into three essential areas for program success. Part I, Introduction, lays the groundwork. To be successful in software, you must have a basic understanding of why major software acquisitions fail and succeed, the unique DoD software acquisition environment, and software-intensive life cycles and methodologies. Part II, Engineering, provides the meat. World-class software must be engineered, which involves implementing a series of interrelated, interdependent concepts, disciplines, and activities. These include risk management, Ada, software development maturity, measurement and metrics, reuse, software tools, and software support. Part III, Management, brings it all together. To successfully manage a major software-intensive systems acquisition, you must be an informed buyer. You must understand the software development process, software quality assurance, contract management techniques, and insist on continuous process improvement throughout the system's life. To step up to this challenge, you and your program will benefit by following the comprehensive software acquisition and management guidance found between these pages.
Download or read book Weapon Systems Software Management Guidebook written by Usaf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook is specifically directed at Computer Systems and Software (CS&S) associated with weapon systems. Lack of software management guidance has been identified as a major concern for Air Force organizations involved in the acquisition and sustainment of software-intensive weapon systems. A recent GAO report presented the argument that Department of Defense (DOD) weapons systems under development are riddled with vulnerabilities that make them an easy target for adversaries trying to control them or disrupt their functions.This guidebook addresses these known issues and sets top level Air Force expectations for the development, acquisition, management and sustainment of weapon systems software and software embedded in Air Force systems, so that software-related problems that are now too typical can be understood and avoided in the future. The principles and techniques in this guidebook will generally apply to all software domains, but the targeted domains include aeronautical, electronics, weapons, and space systems. The intended audience includes Project Officers, systems/software engineers, and other engineers that have a software acquisition element in their project. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition DoD Should Strengthen Policies for Assessing Technical Data Needs to Support Weapon Systems written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army and the Air Force have encountered limitations in their sustainment plans for some fielded weapon systems because they lacked needed technical data rights. The lack of technical data rights has limited the services flexibility to make changes to sustainment plans that are aimed at achieving cost savings and meeting legislative requirements regarding depot maintenance capabilities. During our review we identified seven Army and Air Force weapon system programs where these military services encountered limitations in implementing revisions to sustainment plans C-17 aircraft, F-22 aircraft, C-130J aircraft, Up-armored High- Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), Stryker family of vehicles, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, and M4 carbine. Although the circumstances surrounding each case were unique, earlier decisions made on technical data rights during system acquisition were cited as a primary reason for the limitations subsequently encountered. As a result of the limitations encountered due to the lack of technical data rights, the services had to alter their plans for developing maintenance capability at public depots, new sources of supply to increase production, or competitive offers for the acquisition of spare parts and components to reduce sustainment costs. For example, the Air Force identified a need to develop a capability to perform maintenance on the C-17 at government depots but lacked the requisite technical data rights. Consequently, the Air Force is seeking to form partnerships with C-17 subvendors to develop its depot maintenance capability. Its efforts to form these partnerships have had mixed results, according to Air Force officials, because some sub-vendors have declined to provide the needed technical data.
Download or read book DoD Weapon Systems Software Management Study Appendix A Findings and Recommendations of Previous Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This appendix to the DoD Weapon Systems Software Management Study conducted by APL contains background material extracted and/or summarized from 10 previous D0D-sponsored studies. The studies were designated Baseline Documents by the Department of Defense Software Management Steering Committee and are particularly relevant to the subject of Weapon Systems software. A brief introduction specifying the purpose of each study and a summary of its findings and/or conclusions are included. Recommendations are summarized for each study that provided them. Whenever such study recommendations are available, abbreviated versions of the APL recommendations (from the main report) that correlate most closely are included for reference.
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Download or read book Defense acquisitions assessments of major weapon programs report to Congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOD Weapon Systems Software Management Study Appendix D Undersea and Landbased Systems written by R. S. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This appendix to the DoD Weapon Systems Software Management Study conducted by APL contains information on Undersea and Landbased Systems presented in more detail than is given in the main report. The specific systems discussed are the Trident Command and Control System, the Pershing Weapon System, and the SAM-D Weapon System. Each section is divided into a General System Description; Computer System Architecture; Computer Program Architecture; Software Definition, Design, and Implementation; Software Validation and Integration; Software Acquisition Management Organization and Methods; Operational Software Maintenance; and Highlights. (Author).
