Software Engineering Institute

Contracting officers and program managers often cannot find assurance information in acquisition documents and artifacts or relate it to changes in risks and software.

This project provides the experiences of a team of computer scientists in building a cognitive processing application using IBM Watson as a way to meet the needs of contracting officers and program managers. Both the process for building IBM Watson applications and the lessons learned are described.

The team represents a typical application team in that they are familiar with a technical domain—application security and software assurance—and are not experts in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, or cognitive computing.