Software Solutions Symposium 2017 - Presentations
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Software Engineering Institute
Abstract
The Software Solutions Symposium is a forum for learning about emerging technologies and practical solutions that you can apply today for help with systemic software issues such as assurance, cost, and schedule.
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Struggles at the Frontiers: Persistent Pursuit of Software Assurance in the Development and Sustainment of Defense Systems
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By Kenneth Nidiffer
This presentation presents new processes, techniques, and tools being used to improve software assurance in the development and sustainment of defense systems.
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The Relationship Between Design Flaws and Software Vulnerabilities: A Technical Debt Perspective
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By Ipek Ozkaya, Robert Nord
This presentation explores the relationships between design flaws and software vulnerabilities, and their impact on software assurance and sustainable development and delivery.
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A Tale of Two (Agile) Programs
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By Suzanne Miller, Will Hayes
The SEI has worked with several government programs that are adopting Agile and Lean engineering approaches. In this presentation, we provide insights into two distinct patterns of adoption that we …
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6 Things You Need to Know About Data Governance
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By John Klein
This presentation discusses a framework to guide governance decisions.
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Using Malware Analysis to Identify Overlooked Security Requirements
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By Nancy R. Mead, Jose A. Morales
This presentation describes initial research conducted by CERT and Carnegie Mellon to determine if malware report databases were amenable to automated processing to identify flaws
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Agile Project Success and Failure (The Story of the FBI Sentinel Program)
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By Thomas E. Friend (Agile On Target)
This presentation describes how the FBI adopted Agile and succeeded after two failed attempts at building a $300 million case management system.
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Applied Machine Learning in Software Engineering
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By Eliezer Kanal
This presentation describes why software engineers should care about machine learning and how they can immediately benefit from it.
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Keynote: A Perspective on Military Software Needs
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By Heidi Shyu (No Affiliation)
The commercial software industry is rapidly growing and creating disruptive technologies. How do we leverage the explosive growth in software capabilities for the military? What are the unique software challenges …
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Toward Successfully Navigating Large-Scale IT Modernization Efforts
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By Felix Bachmann, Stephany Bellomo
The authors of this presentation share their experiences developing and putting in place an IT roadmap for a large government organization, resulting in the implementation of an enterprise-wide shared data …
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Panel: Software Sustainment - Continuous Engineering to Deliver Warfighter Capability
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By Michael McLendon, Stephany Bellomo, Forrest Shull, John Stankowski (Office of the DASD for Maintenance Policy and Programs)
This technical panel focused on the DoD's software sustainment challenges and highlighted the key findings of the SEI's study of DoD software sustainment infrastructure.
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Nationwide IT: A Software Process Improvement Journey
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By Guru Vasudeva (Nationwide IT)
By deploying and scaling a blend of Agile and Lean concepts, a unique team model, and fostering a problem solving and learning culture, Nationwide IT has produced significant business outcomes …
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Agile in Government: A Research Agenda for Agile Software Development
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By Will Hayes, Suzanne Miller, Eileen Wrubel
The SEI team working with Agile in government has built a rich narrative of Agile implementation experiences and now works with an extensive network of collaborators on fundamental research questions …
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Testing in a Non-Deterministic World
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By Donald Firesmith
This presentation discusses sources of non-determinism, testing ramifications of non-determinism, and recommendations for testing in a non-deterministic world.
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Methodology for Comparing Cloud Service Offerings
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By Jeff Davenport, Sarah Sheard
This presentation describes a methodology for normalizing the offerings into common units of measure that are relevant to the procurer of the services.
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Methodology for the Cost Benefit Analysis of a Large Scale Multi-phasic Software Enterprise Migration
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By Jerry Jackson, Bryce L. Meyer, James Wessel
This presentation describes the methodology used by the SEI to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed migration of all Army software-based systems to a common operating environment (COE) and …
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Temporal Partitioning and Verification in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
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By Dionisio de Niz, Bjorn Andersson
This presentation describes innovations in the temporal protection of components that perform computations throughout multiple processors and have end-to-end timing requirements.
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So Much Money for So Little Capability: The Reality of Sustaining DoD Software Systems
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By David Schneider, Alfred Schenker, Grady Campbell
This presentation identifies and explains some of the most significant factors that affect long-term software sustainment.
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Measuring Complexity for System Safety Assurance
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By Sarah Sheard, Michael D. Konrad, Bill Nichols, Charles Weinstock
This presentation describes a two-year research effort to define complexity measures for avionics systems in order to help the FAA identify when systems are too complex to assure their safety.
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Security Measurement: Establishing Confidence that Security Is Sufficient
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By Carol Woody, Christopher J. Alberts
The SEI is researching how measurement can be used to establish confidence in software security. This presentation shares our progress to date.
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Improvements in Safety Analysis for Safety Critical Software Systems
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By Peter H. Feiler
Recent advances in virtual system integration through architecture modeling and analysis have led to improvements in safety analysis in several ways, which will be described in this presentation.
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Why Does Software Cost So Much? Toward a Causal Model (March 2017)
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By Robert W. Stoddard, Michael D. Konrad, Bill Nichols, David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University), Kuh Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
This presentation shares early research results that may confirm some well-known drivers of DoD software cost and debunk others.
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Risks in the Software Supply Chain
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By Mark Sherman
This presentation describes the parts of the software supply chain, how vulnerabilities have been introduced, and the actions developers can employ to avoid or mitigate the risks inherent in an …
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Keynote: Learning to Drive a C.A.R. at the U.S. Census Bureau
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By Harry Lee
Keynote address by Harry A. Lee, Assistant Director for Information Technology and Deputy CIO.
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Replacing Promises with Data: A Structured Way to Assess Software Health
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By Karen LaFond (U.S. Army), Alfred Schenker, Robert W. Stoddard
Acquisition programs need a structured approach to evaluating the health of contractors' software projects. This presentation describes the Army Ground Combat Systems program's efforts in this area.
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How to Minimize Configuration Switching Time and Cost for Design of Experiments
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By Robert V. Binder
This presentation shows how classical integer programming can be used to determine the least cost (that is, the quickest) order for test configurations.
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Panel: Secure Software Workforce Development Panel Session
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By Girish Seshagiri (Advanced Information Services Inc), Nancy R. Mead, William Newhouse (NIST), James W. Over
This panel discussed programs designed to meet the growing need for software assurance professionals.
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Building Secure Software for Mission Critical Systems
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By Mark Sherman
This presentation explores the expanding landscape of vulnerabilities that accompanies the increasing reliance on software and then examines some key steps to help mitigate the increased risk.
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Secure Tactical Cloudlets for Mission Support at the Edge
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By Grace Lewis, Sebastián Echeverría, Dan J. Klinedinst, Keegan M. Williams
This presentation introduces the architecture and features of tactical cloudlets and presents a solution for establishing trusted identities in disconnected environments based on the generation and exchange of secure keys …
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