Delivering Resilient Software Capability to the Warfighter at the Speed of Relevance

<p dir="ltr">In March, the secretary of defense directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to adopt the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) to accelerate the development and deployment of capabilities to the warfighter. The mandate to use the SWP, which the SEI contributed to, arrives at a time when DoD missions increasingly rely on software and the related technologies of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) -- all of which are focus areas at the SEI. These technical areas grow in importance as national security and defense organizations require enhanced capabilities to protect a broader range of targets against more sophisticated and adept threats. In this post, Paul Nielsen, director of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) highlights the ways in which our research and development support DoD’s use of modern software practices at each phase of the software development and operation lifecycle.</p>