The Importance of Architecture in DoD Software

Abstract

This paper argues that in the face of declining military budgets and increasingly diverse threats, the key to making defense systems more flexible, while keeping costs down, is to procure and design software architectures. 'Architecture' is defined, and a number of examples are given to demonstrate the effects of architectures on various DoD systems. The paper concludes with recommendations for increasing architectural awareness in DoD procurements. Ada, Defense systems, DoD Procurement, Software architecture.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285956

Entities

People

  • Barry M. Horowitz

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Budgets
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Military Budgets
  • Procurement
  • Radar
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.