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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.