ASSIP Study of Real-Time Safety-Critical Embedded Software-Intensive System Engineering Practices

Abstract

Modern weapon systems increasingly depend on real-time, safety-critical, embedded (RTSCE) software to achieve their mission objectives. In addition, these systems are experiencing far longer service lives than anticipated at their inception. Army weapon system developers are concerned that this combination of factors renders today's software acquisition and development practices insufficient to address the challenges of these software-intensive systems. To address the concern, the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program tasked the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to assess RTSCE software-intensive systems issues and develop recommendations. The findings of phase one of that study are presented in this report: (1) industry is driving the development of tools for model-based engineering to meet the needs of RTSCE system development, and (2) many opportunities exist for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to gain experience and advance the transition of these tools into DoD programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA480129

Entities

People

  • Dionisio de Niz
  • Peter Feiler

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • International Organizations
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Modeling Language
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.