Software Acquisition Best Practices: Experiences From the Space Systems Domain

Abstract

This report describes a comprehensive set of software acquisition best practices that the Software Acquisition MOlE research team has identified based on their experience with numerous space programs over many years. These best practices address pre-contract award activities, post-contract award activities, and full life cycle activities for the acquisition of large, complex, software-intensive systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427935

Entities

People

  • K. L. Owens
  • M. A. Rich
  • R. J. Adams
  • S. Eslinger

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Engineers
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Life Cycles
  • Reliability
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Space Systems
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space