Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiative to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) was established in 1984 as an integral part of the DoD’s initiative to identify, evaluate, and transition software engineering technologies and practices. The mission of the SEI is to provide the DoD with technical leadership and innovation through research and development to advance the practice of software engineering and technology. The SEI works across government, industry, and academia to improve the state of software engineering from the technical, acquisition, and management perspectives. The SEI engages in research and development of critical software technologies and tools and collaborates with the larger software engineering research community. It facilitates the rapid transition of software engineering technologies into practice and evaluates emerging software engineering technologies to determine their potential for improving software-intensive Department of Defense (DoD) systems. Since its inception, the SEI has helped to transform the fields of software engineering and acquisition, network security, real-time systems, software architectures, and software-engineering process management. Software is critical to meeting the Department of Defense's (DoD) increasing demand for national defense systems that are high quality, affordable, and deployed in a timely way. With growing global parity in software engineering, the DoD must maintain leadership in all aspects of software-based system development, operation, defense, and evolution 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 research conducted by this PE directly benefits the technical domains Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber, and Engineered Resilient Systems.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0602751D8Z_2_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Complex Systems
• Computer Programs
• Computer Science
• Computers
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analysis
• Defense Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Information Assurance
• Information Science
• Machine Learning
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Cyber