Finding the 'RITE' Acquisition Environment for Navy C2 Software

Abstract

Rapid Integration and Test Environment. A funadmental change in the way C4ISR software is acquired: Commercial best-practice software engineering standards & processes. Explicit governance and contractual guidance. Automated testing and report generation tools. Enables Agile Development and Rapid Fielding. RITE's History: RITE was initiated over 7 years ago as a response to program of record challenges in managing, producing and fielding C2 software. Evolution of commercial best practices in agile development tailored to work within the DoD acquisition structure. Key Enabler of Rapid IT acquisition programs. RITE being leveraged by 16 software programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA625216

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Morris

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Best Practices
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Language
  • Naval Warfare
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Testing
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.