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How to Extract Software Information from Reluctant Contractors
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Abstract
Existing orthodox procedures for acquiring non-software items are usually inappropriate for acquiring software-intensive weapon systems. Nevertheless, several practical mechanisms are available (if not widely known) to facilitate software acquisitions. This paper presents and clarifies these appropriate mechanisms.
Acquisition managers must focus on developmental phase contracts to eventually deliver effective software-intensive systems. The source selection process presents a critical opportunity to apply unique software management mechanisms, and to incorporate them into development contracts. Three mechanisms are discussed: (1) software Work Breakdown Structures, and (2) Cost/Schedule Control reports, and (3) formal documents from DOD-STD-2167A. A bibliography of regulations and documents is provided.
This paper details merits and limitations of contractual mechanisms, and demonstrates how managers can use them to impose discipline…onto the normally undisciplined software acquisition process.
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Acosta, E., "How to Extract Software Information from Reluctant Contractors," SAE Technical Paper 901019, 1990, https://doi.org/10.4271/901019.Also In
References
- Acosta, Edmundo O. Golub, David H. “Evolving Experience in Software Cost Estimating,” Proceedings of the 4th ROK-US Defense Analysis Symposium Seoul, ROK Sep 87 163 182
- U. S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) Regulation No. 715-2 “Cost/Schedule Control and Information Systems for Use in the Acquisition Process,” 15 Nov 85
- Boehm, Barry W. Software Engineering Economics Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1981
- DOD Directive 5000.1 “Major and NonMajor Defense Acquisition Programs,” 1 Sep 87
- DOD Instruction 7000.2 “Major System Acquisitions,” 10 Jun 77
- DOD Instruction 7000.10 “Contract Cost Performance, Funds Status and Cost/Schedule Status Reports,” 3 Dec 79
- “Defense System Software Development,” 4 Jun 85
- “Work Breakdown Structures for Defense Materiel Items,” 25 Apr 75
- DRAFT 1990