Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 21, Number 11

Abstract

As the Acting Director of Software and Systems Engineering in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology), I occupy a uniquely advantageous position to witness the challenges that interoperability imposes on the engineering community. In particular, I have observed that very distinct cultures distinguish the software engineering and systems engineering communities and the subtle differences in their perspectives, and how these have undermined the DoD's ability to develop solutions to warfighter needs. Although systems engineering, as a discipline, nominally encompasses software, its heritage is hardware-oriented and favors a products-oriented perspective and function decomposition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA499158

Entities

People

  • Brannen C. Cohee
  • Chuck W. Turner
  • George Rebovich Jr.
  • George Webb
  • Jo A. Lane
  • John M. Colombi
  • Judith S. Dahmann
  • Kristin Baldwin
  • Nanette Patton
  • Philip Boxer
  • Shamlan Siddiqi
  • William B. Anderson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Beta Testing
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies