Software Acquisition Best Practices Tutorial

Abstract

This tutorial presents a comprehensive set of software acquisition best practices that have been defined based on experience with numerous software-intensive space system acquisitions. The tutorial covers these software acquisition best practices in chronological order through each phase of the National Security Space acquisition life cycle. It addresses important software acquisition best practices that must be carried out by program offices throughout the acquisition life cycle, from program inception through retirement. This tutorial was presented at the Space Systems Engineering and Risk Management Symposium in October 2005.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA444929

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Best Practices
  • Contracts
  • Cycles
  • Engineering
  • Life Cycles
  • National Security
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Risk Management
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Space Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management

Readers

  • Library and Information Science
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space