Defense Acquisition. Volume 47, Number 5, September-October 2018

Abstract

AT ANY CONFERENCE OR FORUM ON DEFENSE acquisition in the last few years, you would have heard one word repeated almost relentlessly: Agile. Search the Web and youll find a number of articles and briefing charts highlighting the challenges of adopting Agile principles in the context of a weapon system. Typically, the discussion centers on shifting away from the waterfall approach, addressing systems engineering, and getting through various certification and testing authorities. Let me share my experience in successfully applying Agile values and principles to the acquisition program of the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) MQ-9 Reaper unmanned air vehicle (UAV) without dictating a particular software development methodology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064111

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Electronic Mail
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Management Training
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy