Emerging Tech Horizons

Software Productivity Trends and Issues within the Defense Industrial Base

Sep 20, 2023 · 30 min · 29.1 MB
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The Department of Defense is experiencing an explosive increase in its demand for software-implemented features in weapon systems. The combination of exponential increases in computing power and similar advances in memory density and speed has made software-mediated implementation of system features increasingly attractive. In the meantime, defense software productivity and industrial base capacity have not been growing as quickly. Do we have an impending bottleneck? If so, what are the management implications?
Find out with Dr. Arun Seraphin and Dr. David Tate, Senior Analyst in the Cost Analysis Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Software Productivity Trends and Issues (Conference Paper)
https://www.ida.org/research-and-publications/publications/all/s/so/software-productivity-trends-and-issues-conference-paper

Other Software-related ETI activities:
Coding the Future: Recommendations for Defense Software R&D
https://www.emergingtechnologiesinstitute.org/publications/workshop-reports/software-report

Podcast: Software Modernization with Dr. Forrest Shull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbBRiPBIGpI

Technology 101: Agile Software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyEIDJhPPbQ&t=55s

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