An Investment-Based Approach for Managing Software-Intensive Systems

Abstract

Maintaining information superiority will be vital to the 21st century warfighter, and the military's documented shortcomings in acquiring leading edge information technology systems must be addressed in order to meet this need. The investment based approach to the acquisition of software intensive systems discussed here considers recent management reform legislation and will help DoD meet information superiority requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA372016

Entities

People

  • Margaret E. Myers

Organizations

  • United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Complex Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Acquisition
  • Operations Research
  • Procurement
  • Software Development
  • Spiral Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Software Engineering.