Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research
Abstract
Software is key to meeting the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) increasing demand for high-quality, affordable, and timely national defense systems. With growing global parity in software engineering, the DoD must maintain leadership to avoid strategic surprise. To assist the DoD in retaining a long-term differential advantage over potential adversaries, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research Program Element (PE) seeks to establish a program of applied research that will develop and evaluate the feasibility and practicality of software and computer science concepts with the potential to improve future DoD systems. The SEI Applied Research PE will initially have four main research thrusts: (1) measurement techniques for the effectiveness of software technologies and methods; (2) design principles and tools for evolvable, scalable ecosystems; (3) models of computational behaviors; and (4) cyber-tradecraft and analytics. These thrusts have known military applications and can be associated with active areas of basic research. The SEI Applied Research PE seeks to translate this promising basic research into solutions for broadly defined military needs. This PE will leverage the expertise of the SEI Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in advanced technology development and technology transition to design, develop, and improve tools, prototypes, and new processes that meet general requirements for software-intensive DoD systems. The SEI Applied Research PE will also conduct research in multicore computing, architecture-led iterative incremental development (Agile at scale); and emerging software and computer science areas that can act as catalysts for acquiring DoD systems with improved performance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- P278_0602751D8Z_2_0400_PB_2014
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