This report addresses the issue of where software should reside in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for a space system. The report describes the various software activities that must be performed for space system development and provides recommendations as to where these activities belong in the standard product-oriented space system WBS structure, with specific focus on the very important cross-product software activities that must be accomplished on complex, software-intensive space ...
With the focus on new acquisition practices, the opportunity exists for identifying and implementing a comprehensive set of software acquisition best practices designed to reduce risk in the acquisition of software-intensive system. In 2004, the authors published a technical report that described such a comprehensive set of software acquisition best practices for a system development contract. The acquisition of large, complex software-intensive systems has historically been fraught with major problems, ...
This tutorial presents a comprehensive set of software acquisition best practices that have been defined based on experience with numerous software-intensive space system acquisitions. The tutorial covers these software acquisition best practices in chronological order through each phase of the National Security Space acquisition life cycle. It addresses important software acquisition best practices that must be carried out by program offices throughout the acquisition life cycle, from program inception through ...
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