Enabling Transition from Sustainment to Engineering within the DoD
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Software Engineering Institute
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Abstract
Organic software sustainment organizations within the Department of Defense are expanding beyond their traditional purview of software maintenance into software engineering and development. Instead of repairing and maintaining legacy software in already deployed systems, software sustainment teams must now shift to designing and implementing new software architectures and code. Unfortunately, many of these sustainment teams are taking on these new responsibilities without proper guidance and an understanding the people, process, and technology issues that must first be addressed in these new roles. In this podcast, Thomas Evans, a senior software architect at the SEI, and Douglas C. Schmidt, associate provost of research at Vanderbilt University and former chief technical officer at the SEI, discuss the challenges that software sustainment teams face while making this transition and strategies for success.
About the Speaker
Thomas Evans
Thomas Evans is an SEI alumni employee.
Thomas Evans is a senior software architect and acting initiative lead in the SEI’s Software Solutions Division. In this role, Evans leads teams in the evaluation of software systems, advises and promotes best practices, researches and prototypes software system modernization solutions, and champions …
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Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University)
Douglas Schmidt is an SEI alumni employee.
Schmidt is Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Schmidt was formerly a visiting scientist at the SEI working on special projects for the SEI director. He was also the chief technology officer of the …
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