Software and System Engineering
Integration
Sponsor Overview
Kristen Baldwin
Deputy Director, Software Engineering and System Assurance
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
ODUSD (A&T) Organization
USD, Acquisition
Technology & Logistics
DUSD, Acquisition &
Technology
Dir, Joint Advanced
Concepts
Defense Procurement
and Acquisition Policy
Dir, Systems and
Software Engineering
Industrial
Programs
Dir, Portfolio
Systems Acquisition
Small Business
Programs
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Defense Acquisition
University
Defense Contract
Management Agency
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Systems and Software Engineering
An Organizational Construct
Director, Systems &
Software Engineering
Deputy Director
Enterprise Development
Deputy Director
Developmental Test
& Evaluation
Deputy Director
Software Engineering &
System Assurance
Deputy Director
Assessments & Support
New Focus on
Software and Assurance
Acquisition program excellence through sound systems and software engineering
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Establishing a DoD Engineering
Center of Excellence
OSD Software Engineering
and System Assurance
• Support Acquisition Success
DoD
Center of
Excellence
• Improve State-of-the-Practice
of Engineering
• Leadership, Outreach and
Advocacy
• Foster Resources to Meet
DoD Needs
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Recap of Activities
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Documented software issues, needs
– Software Industrial Base Study completed
– NDIA Top Software Issues Workshop Report
– Defense Software Strategy Summit Report
•
Created partnerships
– Established network of DoD software POCs
– Chartered the NDIA Software Committee and Expert Panel
– Bi-weekly software collaboration exchanges with Government, Academia,
and Industry
– Restructured the US-UK-AUS Trilateral Working Group
•
Performed gap analysis
– Identified ongoing software initiatives; mapped them to issue areas
– Two outcomes:
1. Identified initiatives that deserve cross-DoD attention
2. Identified gaps where attention is needed
Common Goal: Provide visibility to key initiatives;
Focus attention on gaps
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Top Software Issues*
1. The impact of requirements upon software is not consistently quantified and
managed in development or sustainment.
2. Fundamental system engineering decisions are made without full participation
of software engineering.
3. Software life-cycle planning and management by acquirers and suppliers is
ineffective.
4. The quantity and quality of software engineering expertise is insufficient to
meet the demands of government and the defense industry.
5. Traditional software verification techniques are costly and ineffective for
dealing with the scale and complexity of modern systems.
6. There is a failure to assure correct, predictable, safe, secure execution of
complex software in distributed environments.
7. Inadequate attention is given to total lifecycle issues for COTS/NDI impacts
on lifecycle cost and risk.
*NDIA Top Software Issues Workshop
August 2006
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DoD Software -- What We’re Seeing*
•
Software systemic issues are significant contributors to poor program
execution
– Software requirements not well defined, traceable, testable
– Immature architectures, COTS integration, interoperability, obsolescence
(electronics/hardware refresh)
– Software development processes not institutionalized, planning documents
missing or incomplete, reuse strategies inconsistent
– Software test/evaluation lacking rigor and breadth
– Schedule realism (compressed, overlapping)
– Lessons learned not incorporated into successive builds
– Software risks/metrics not well defined, managed
*Based on ~65 program reviews to date
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DoD Software Challenges
Challenges
• System Complexity – DoD systems are software intensive, upwards of 90%
of functionality controlled by software
• Net-centric – DoD systems must interoperate in a net-centric environment
• Changing operational threat – user need changes well inside of typical
acquisition cycle times
Software Role
• Software is an enabler for systems to overcome the challenges -- cannot
treat it as a standalone element of the system…
• Yet, we find software continues to be separate from the systems
engineering practices
Solution
• How do we encourage the behavior to overcome this issue?
– Knowledge and awareness (ie. PM, milestone decision authority, chief SE)
– Processes and tools (ie. Standards, development environments, SE technical
practices)
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Project Summary:
Integrating Systems and Software Engineering
• Statement of Work
– Evaluate current DoD SysE, SwE processes and standards
• Identify deltas, issue areas, recommendations
– Evaluate ICM for integration applicability
– Evaluate relevant DoD guidance, education, and training
• Provide recommendations based on evaluations
• Key Milestones
– October 19. Draft Results to Date briefing
– October 29-30. USC Workshop
– December 31. Final Report
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Overcoming the software challenges
Can we answer questions:
• How much programmatic risk are we taking on with respect to software?
• How is our SE planning considering SW in schedule, technical reviews, etc?
• How is our design making SW/HW trades?
– Initial trades
– Requirements changes over time
Warnings for this Workshop…
• Don’t solve the greater Congressional and DoD acquisition issues
• Don’t get lost in SoS definitions and Governance issues
Focus on
• What the engineering community can do to keep our leadership informed of
SW risk and opportunity
• Making sure SE/SW is a cohesive approach throughout all technical and
management practices
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IS&SE Workshop Objectives: Identify
• Biggest issues and opportunities
– In technology
– In management
• Inhibitors to progress and how to overcome them
– What’s working
– What could work?
• What else is needed
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Technology/management research
Education and training
Regulations, specifications and standards
Other?
What is the right approach to better integration of SE and SW
across the lifecycle?
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