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A Strategy for Component Product Lines: Report 3: Component Product Line Governance
• Special Report
By Alfred Schenker, Sholom G. Cohen
This report provides guidance for the community involved with developing and sustaining product lines of components used by the U.S. government.
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U.S. Leadership in Software Engineering & AI Engineering: Critical Needs & Priorities Workshop - Executive Summary
• White Paper
By Anita Carleton, Forrest Shull, Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University), Erin Harper, John E. Robert, Ipek Ozkaya
A joint SEI/NITRD workshop will advance U.S. national interests through software and AI engineering and accelerate progress across virtually all scientific domains.
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Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: No Silver Bullet
• Webcast
By Brett Tucker
In this webcast, Brett Tucker renews an emphasis on using robust enterprise risk management to achieve operational resilience in the cyber supply chain.
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Simulating Realistic Human Activity Using Large Language Model Directives
• Technical Report
By Dustin D. Updyke, Thomas G. Podnar, Sean Huff
The authors explore how activities generated from the GHOSTS Framework’s NPC client compare to activities produced by GHOSTS’ default behavior and LLMs.
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Why Your Software Cost Estimates Change Over Time and How DevSecOps Data Can Help Reduce Cost Risk
• White Paper
By Julie B. Cohen
Early software cost estimates are often off by over 40%; this paper discusses how programs must continually update estimates as more information becomes available.
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A Retrospective in Engineering Large Language Models for National Security
• White Paper
By The Software Engineering Institute
This document discusses the findings, recommendations, and lessons learned from engineering a large language model for national security use cases.
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Actionable Data in the DevSecOps Pipeline
• Podcast
By Bill Nichols, Julie B. Cohen
Bill Nichols and Julie Cohen talk with Suzanne Miller about how automation within DevSecOps product-development pipelines provides new opportunities for program managers (PMs) to confidently make decisions with the help …
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Ask Us Anything: Generative AI Edition
• Webcast
By Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University), John E. Robert, Rachel Dzombak, Jasmine Ratchford, Matthew Walsh, Shing-hon Lau
In this webcast, SEI researchers answered audience questions and discussed what generative AI does well and the associated risk and opportunities.
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Evaluating Trustworthiness of AI Systems
• Webcast
By Carol J. Smith, Carrie Gardner
In this webcast, SEI researchers discuss how to evaluate trustworthiness of AI systems given their dynamic nature and the challenges of managing ongoing responsibility for maintaining trustworthiness.
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Insider Threat Program Evaluation
• Educational Material
By Software Engineering Institute
The Insider Threat Program Evaluation (ITPE) is an evidence-based, capability-level assessment.
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