Defense Software: Review of Defense Report on Software Development Best Practices

Abstract

On March 20, 2000, the Department of Defense provided your Committee with a report on its efforts to adopt management best practices for software development and acquisition. Defense was directed to provide this report by language in the Committees report to accompany the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2000, Senate Report 106-50. The requirement was established because the Committee was concerned that DOD had not taken sufficient actions to address costly and long-standing software development and acquisition problems, which have been documented in many GAO, Inspector General, and department studies. Senate Report 106-50 also required GAO to review and comment on Defenses response.1 This letter provides our comments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 2000
Accession Number
AD1153562

Entities

People

  • Jack L. Jr Brock

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Guidance
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Management Personnel
  • Measurement
  • Minority Groups
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Software Engineering.