National Software Works

Abstract

The National Software Works (NSW) is a significant new step in the development of distributed processing systems and computer networks. NSW is an ambitious project to link a set of geographically distributed and diverse hosts with an operating system which appears as a single entity to a prospective user. The National Software Works is being developed in response to a growing concern over the high cost of software. The Air Force has estimated that in FY72 it spent between $1 billion and $1.5 billion on software, about three times the annual expenditure on computer hardware. The Air Force has further estimated that by 1985 software expenditures will be over 90% of total computer costs. Both industry and government have committed vast resources for the development of tools--automated aids for the implementors of software and the managers of software implementation projects. These tools include compilers, editors, debuggers, design systems, test management tools, language analyzers, etc. The difficulty is not the existence of suitable tools for a given programming task; it is the availability of the tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 1979
Accession Number
ADA148520

Entities

People

  • Charles A. Muntz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Application Protocols
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Configuration Management
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Information Retrieval
  • Management Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Software Testing
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Economics
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Software Engineering.