Dec 19
A Summary of Key SEI R&D Accomplishments in 2011
Acquisition , Acquisition Dynamics , Agile , Architecture Documentation , Architecture Driven Design (ADD) , Binaries , Cyber-physical Systems , Fuzzy Hashing , Handheld Devices , Malware , Measurement & Analysis , Resilience Management Model (RMM) , Safety-Related Requirements , Security-Related Requirements , SEI Research , Software Cost Estimates , Team Software Process (TSP) , Technical Debt 1 Comment »By Douglas C. Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer
A key mission of the SEI is to advance the practice of software engineering and cyber security through research and technology transition
to ensure the development and operation of software-reliant Department
of Defense (DoD) systems with predictable and improved quality,
schedule, and cost. To achieve this mission, the SEI conducts research
and development (R&D) activities involving the DoD, federal
agencies, industry, and academia. One of my initial blog postings
summarized the new and upcoming R&D activities
we had planned for 2011. Now that the year is nearly over, this blog
posting presents some of the many R&D accomplishments we completed
in 2011.
In response to a comment on my 
As software becomes an
ever-increasing part of our daily lives, organizations find themselves relying
on software that originates from unknown and untrusted sources. The vast
majority of such software is available only as executables, known as “binaries.”
Many binaries—such as malware or different versions and builds of a software
package—are simply minor variants of old programs (or in some cases exact
copies) that have been run through a different compiler. This blog post explains how the ability to detect
similarities among binaries is an important tool in malware detection and a
growing area of research. 
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