Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Military Software

Abstract

Current DoD initiatives in software technology and methodology include the Ada effort, the STARS program, DARPA's Strategic Computing Initiative, the Software Engineering Institute, and a planned program in the Strategic Defense Initiative. These five initiatives are uncoordinated. We recommend that the Undersecretary of Defense (Acquisition) establish a formal program coordination mechanism for them. The big problems are not technical. In spite of the substantial technical development needed in requirements-setting, metrics and measures, tools, etc., the Task Force is convinced that today's major problems with military software development are not technical problems, but management problems. Hence we call for no new initiatives in the development of the technology, some modest shift of focus in the technology efforts underway, but major re-examination and change of attitudes, policies, and practices concerning software acquisition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA188561

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Science Board

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • High Level Languages
  • Intellectual Property
  • Management Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies