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NDIASoftware Industry Experts Panel

Paul R. Croll, Chair

NDIA Systems Engineering Division Meeting24 June 2008

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Who We Are

● The NDIA Software Industry Experts Panel acts as a “voice of industry” in matters relating to DoD software issues

● The Panel helps identify and resolve software acquisition and development issues facing the industry and its Government customer base

● The Panel may also, from time to time, identify for investigation certain technologies or practices that promise to improve industry responsiveness to DoD needs.

● Members– Paul Croll, CSC, Chair– JoAn Ferguson, General Dynamics– Gary Hafen, Lockheed Martin– Blake Ireland, Raytheon– Al Mink, SRA International– Ken Nidiffer, SEI– Shawn Rahmani, Boeing– Rick Selby, Northrop Grumman

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What We Do

● Investigate, analyze, and develop recommendations concerning software issues, in response to NDIA and Government requests

● Provide industry comments on Government positions, initiatives, or work products

● Develop industry white papers and position papers● Reach out to relevant stakeholders through NDIA

conferences and other venues as appropriate

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Software In Acquisition Spring Workshop 2008

● The purpose of this workshop was to be a “touch point” for the actions that resulted from the SSA annual software workshop in October of last year

● Review of issues and recommendations in each of the areas covered under the October workshop: – Requirements– Risk/Cost– Quality Attributes

● Three Working Groups– Software Requirements– Software Risk and Estimation– Software Quality Attributes

● Objectives For Each Working Group– Task Statements– Deliverables– Schedule

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Outcome

● Knit Together Selected “Big Ideas” into Unified Proposed Initiative:

● Leveraging Competitive Prototyping through Acquisition Initiatives in Integrated Systems and Software Requirements, Risk, Estimation, and Quality

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Task Definition

● Task 1: Conduct surveys and interviews of leading software professionals (government, industry, academia) to gather ideas, assess impacts, and sense expectations for Competitive Prototyping

● Task 2: Provide amplification of Competitive Prototyping memo for integrated SE/SW, [including where in the lifecycle there are opportunities for Competitive Prototyping [and how they can be contractually achieved]

● Task 3:Identify first adopters of Competitive Prototyping and facilitate and gather insights on effective usage, including collecting and analyzing data

● Task 4: Develop guidance for early selection and application of integrated SE/SW quality systems for Competitive Prototyping [for RFP-authors]

● Task 5: Develop Software Engineering Handbook for Competitive Prototyping including material explicitly targeted to different audiences (acquirer, supplier, etc.).

● Task 6: Develop training assets (materials, competencies, skill sets, etc.) that capture best-of-class ideas/practices for Competitive Prototyping

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Competitive Prototyping Survey

● Purpose– “To gather recommendations, assess impacts, and sense

expectations for Competitive Prototyping" from key members of government, industry, and academia

● Conducted by the Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE), at the University of Southern California (USC)

● The domain of interest for the survey and interviews comprise those projects that are considered large-scale "software-intensive systems" (SiS)– Systems for which software is a principal and defining component– Where software likely represents the key source of technological

and programmatic risk in its development– The software development costs of projects of interest should be

valued at $100 million, or higher

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OUSD(AT&L)/SSE-USC/CSSE CP Workshop

● OUSD(AT&L)/SSE-USC/CSSE Workshop on Integrating Systems and Software Engineering under Competitive Prototyping with the Incremental Commitment Model– Washington, DC, July 14-17, 2008

● Discussion of the way forward from the survey through the remainder of the tasks

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