Software Engineering Institute

Software sustainment is critical to DoD capability, but it is difficult to determine where and when to invest limited funds to produce the most significant impact for the least amount of effort and expense. An SEI research initiative is developing a model that shows the results of various investment decisions, allowing decision makers to see the effects and make adjustments before problems occur. Determining what data are needed to make the model work and how to collect it is also a significant challenge addressed by this research.

Published in CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 27, Number 1, January/February 2014