Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Applied Research
Abstract
Software is a 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 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 has four main research thrusts: (1) modern software tools, integrated development environments, and software engineering processes for capturing large data sets about development activities and performance; (2) model-based engineering for the design, verification, and validation of software-intensive cyber-physical systems; (3) software production and code analysis techniques that improve the ability to predict how complex software systems will behave; and (4) Successful use of software-reliant systems involving a human element. 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 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 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, 2017
- Source ID
- P278_0602751D8Z_2_0400_PB_2017
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