Software Acquisition: A Comparison of DoD and Commercial Practices
October 1994 • Special Report
Jack R. Ferguson, Michael E. DeRiso
This 1994 report compares best commercial practice with Department of Defense (DoD) processes for acquiring software and recommends some steps that can be taken to streamline DoD software acquisitions to minimize overall life-cycle costs.
Publisher:
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-94-SR-009
Abstract
This paper will compare best commercial practice with the current Department of Defense (DoD) processes for acquiring software and to recommend some steps that can be taken to streamline DoD software acquisitions to minimize overall life-cycle costs.