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Bridging the “Valley of Disappointment” for DoD Software Research with SPRUCE

Currency Analysis , Cyber-physical Systems , Real-Time Scheduling , SEI Research , Tactical Systems No Comments »

By Douglas C. Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer
SEI

As noted in the National Research Council’s report Critical Code: Software Producibility for Defense, mission-critical Department of Defense (DoD) systems increasingly rely on software for their key capabilities. Ironically, it is increasingly hard to motivate investment in long-term software research for the DoD. This lack of investment stems, in part, from the difficulty that acquisitions programs have making a compelling case for the return on these investments in software research. This post explores how the SEI is using the Systems and Software Producibility Collaboration and Experimentation Environment (SPRUCE) to help address this problem.

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