Apr 22
2013
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
As
part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work, I
would like to let you know about some recently published SEI technical
reports and notes. These reports highlight the latest work of SEI
technologists in quantifying expert judgment, insider threat, detecting and preventing data exfiltration, and developing a common vocabulary for malware analysts.
This post includes a listing of each report, author(s), and links where
the published reports can be accessed on the SEI website.
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Mar 4
2013
By Grace Lewis
Technical Lead,
Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems Research
In
2011, Col. Timothy Hill, director of the Futures Directorate within the
Army Intelligence and Security Command, urged industry to take a more
open-standards approach to cloud computing. “Interoperability
between clouds, as well as the portability of files from one cloud to
another, has been a sticking point in general adoption of cloud
computing,” Hill said during a panel at the AFCEA International 2011 Joint Warfighting Conference.
Hill’s view has been echoed by many in the cloud computing community,
who believe that the absence of interoperability has become a barrier to
adoption. This posting reports on recent research exploring the role of standards in cloud computing and offers recommendations for future standardization efforts.
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Feb 25
2013
By Bill Scherlis
SEI Principal Researcher and Director, Institute for Software Research
Some
of the principal challenges faced by developers, managers, and
researchers in software engineering and cybersecurity involve measurement and evaluation. In two previous blog posts,
I summarized some features of the overall SEI Technology Strategy. This
post focuses on how the SEI measures and evaluates its research program
to help ensure these activities address the most significant and
pervasive problems for the Department of Defense (DoD). Our goal is to
conduct projects that are technically challenging and whose solution
will make a significant difference in the development and operation of
software-reliant systems. In this post we’ll describe the process used
to measure and evaluate the progress of initiated projects at the SEI to
help maximum their potential for success.
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Feb 4
2013
By Bill Scherlis
SEI Principal Researcher and Director, Institute for Software Research
The Department of Defense (DoD) has become deeply reliant on software. As a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC),
the SEI is chartered to work with the DoD to meet the challenges of
designing, producing, assuring, and evolving software-reliant systems in
an affordable and dependable manner. This blog post is the second in a
multi-part series that describes key elements of our forthcoming
Strategic Research Plan that address these challenges through research,
acquisition support, and collaboration with the DoD, other federal
agencies, industry, and academia. The first post
in this series focused on Architecture-Led Incremental Iterative
Development. This part focuses on the remaining three elements of our
strategic plan: (1) designed-in security and quality (evidence-based
software assurance), (2) a set of DoD critical component capabilities
relating to cyber-physical systems (CPS), autonomous systems, and big
data analytics, and (3) cybersecurity tradecraft and analytics.
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Jan 24
2013
By James Edmondson,
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Research, Technology, & System Solutions
An
autonomous system is a computational system that performs a desired
task, often without human guidance. We use varying degrees of autonomy
in robotic systems for manufacturing, exploration of planets and space
debris, water treatment, ambient sensing, and even cleaning floors. This
blog post discusses practical autonomous systems that we are actively
developing at the SEI. Specifically, this post focuses on a new research
effort at the SEI called Self-governing Mobile Adhocs with Sensors and
Handhelds (SMASH) that is forging collaborations with researchers,
professors, and students with the goal of enabling more effective
search-and-rescue crews.
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