Ada in Mission Critical System Acquisition: A Guidebook,

Abstract

This report discusses several issues that influence the successful acquisition of major mission-critical systems. These issues range from the role of software in the system acquisition process, and the state of software engineering practice in industry, to Ada compiler validation, Ada run-time environment, Ada programming environment, Ada reuse, and Ada productivity. A project manager must deal with each of these issues during the course of his procurement and must devise plans to identify them and eliminate them in order to make his program a successful one. Originator-supplied keywords include: Software acquisitions, Ada programming support environment, Ada programming design language, and Life cycle software support.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149271

Entities

People

  • S. N. Mohanty

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineering
  • Formal Languages
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Life Cycles
  • Object Code
  • Procurement
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Software Engineering.
  • Software Verification and Validation.