Software-Intensive Weapons. Assessing Software Risk

Abstract

The objectives of this report were to identify best practices and metrics and analyze causes of poor outcomes. Software-intensive weapon programs are more likely to reach successful outcomes if they used evolutionary environments and disciplined process and managed by metrics. Programs that did not employ these practices consistently garnered poor results from software acquisition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 2006
Accession Number
ADA507080

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Aircraft
  • Best Practices
  • Computer Programming
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Engineering
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Military Research
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering

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