Achieving Better Buying Power for Mobile Open Architecture Software Systems Through Diverse Acquisition Scenarios
Abstract
The U.S. Defense community denotes an ecosystem of system or software componentproducers, system integrators, and customer organizations. For a variety of reasons thiscommunity now embraces the need to utilize open source software (OSS) and proprietaryclosed source software (CSS) in the system capabilities or software components it acquires,design, develops, deploys, and sustains. But the long-term transition to agile and adaptivecapabilities that integrate bespoke or legacy, OSS and CSS components, has surfaced anumber of issues that require acquisition-research-led approaches and solutions. In thispaper, we identify and describe six key issues now found in the Defense software ecosystem:(1) unknown or unclear software architectural representations; (2) how to best deal withdiverse, heterogeneous software IP licenses; (3) how to address cybersecurity requirements;(4) challenges arising in software integration and release pipelines; (5) how OSS evolutionpatterns transform software IP and cybersecurity requirements; and (6) the emergence ofnew business models for software distribution, cost accounting, and software distribution. Weuse the domain of command and control systems under different acquisition scenarios as ourfocus to help illuminate these issues along the way. We close with suggestions for how toresolve them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 30, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1016710
Entities
People
- Thomas Alspaugh
- Walt Scacchi
Organizations
- University of California