Requirements Definition within Acquisition and Its Relationship To Post-Deployment Software Support (PDSS)

Abstract

The acquisition process is being viewed, here, as a system, in that an attempt is made to define its functions as well as the relationships between these functions. The resource allocation of the acquisition functions and the realization of these functions is viewed generically in much the same way as a software system is viewed. That is, whereas a software system is eventually resource allocated to a computer, the acquisition process could be resource allocated to a combination of people, organizations, hardware or software (the software itself resource allocated to hardware). The long term goal of this project is to provide a formal definition of the acquisition phases and their relationships. We have now completed the first phase of this project where the short term goal was to understand more formally the relationships between the requirements definition process within the conceptual phase of the acquisition process and the post deployment software support (PDSS) system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA092967

Entities

People

  • M. Hamilton
  • S. Zeldin

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Army Procurement
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Control
  • Engineers
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Robotics
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools

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  • Computer science

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  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Software Engineering.
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