Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research

Abstract

Software is a key to meeting the Department of Defense's (DoD) increasing demand for high-quality, affordable, and timely national defense systems. With growing global parity in software engineering, the DoD must maintain leadership to avoid strategic surprise. To assist the DoD in retaining a long-term differential advantage over potential adversaries, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research program element (PE) develops and evaluates the feasibility and practicality of software and computer science concepts, with the potential to improve future DoD systems. The SEI’s program of work coordinates across the DoD through Reliance 21, the overarching framework of the DoD’s Science & Technology (S&T) joint planning and coordination process. This PE benefits every Community of Interest (COI) due to the ubiquitous nature of software, but directly benefits: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I); Autonomy; Cyber; and Engineered Resilient Systems. This PE also leverages expertise in government, industry, and academia to enable the development of joint-Service capabilities. This PE represents a pivot toward more fundamental research that enables the DoD to address longer-term challenges in software technology and engineering. The SEI Applied Research PE funds the SEI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), as the leading DoD center for addressing these longer term challenges. The SEI Applied Research PE bolsters the organic research at the SEI FFRDC, enables stronger collaborations between the SEI FFRDC and academia, attracts top researchers to the SEI, gives the DoD access to top experts in information science, and generally enhances the DoD’s ability to benefit from the military applications of research in software and computer science.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0602751D8Z_2_0400_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2017 internal realignment reflects funding for higher Departmental priorities and requirements.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Computer Programming
• Computer Science
• Control Systems
• Cybersecurity
• Cyberspace Operations
• Data Analysis
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Information Science
• Information Systems
• Insider Threats
• Internet Of Things
• Military Applications
• National Security
• Software Development

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control