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 is coordinated 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 due to the ubiquitous nature of software, but particularly benefits: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) which includes a computing and software sub-panel; Autonomy; Cyber; and Engineered Resilient Systems. Work conducted under this PE will enable resilient mission assurance in heterogeneous and contested environments through the verification and validation of system performance and architecture. The program will also assist the DoD in retaining a long-term differential advantage in the areas of software-intensive systems and cybersecurity by enhancing assurance, exploiting automation, and understanding human-computer interaction.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0602751D8Z_2_0400_PB_2018
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Computer Programs
• Computer Science
• Computers
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analysis
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Assurance
• Information Science
• Military Applications
• National Security
• Reliability
• Security
• Software Development

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

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