2024 Year in Review Showcases SEI’s Impact on National Security
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May 5, 2025—The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) last week released its annual review of noteworthy research and development projects from the previous fiscal year. The 2024 SEI Year in Review highlights some of the SEI’s most impactful work in national defense.
As a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD), the SEI has been advancing software for national security. The articles in the 2024 issue of the review illustrate how SEI experts in software, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI) enable capabilities across the DoD and other U.S. agencies, from back rooms to warfighters.
“The Department of Defense’s mission is to ‘provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation’s security.’ Now and even more in the future, success in that vital mission can depend on the quality of software that the DoD acquires, operates, secures, and sustains,” wrote SEI director Paul Nielsen in a foreword to the new release. “The SEI delivers, as no other organization can, innovation matched to DoD warfighter needs in AI, cybersecurity, and software engineering.”
The 2024 SEI Year in Review features the SEI's work in
- applying machine learning to artillery fire missions
- developing the DoD workforce in AI Engineering and malware analysis
- baselining DevSecOps in the DoD
- establishing modern software processes in a high-security satellite data lab
- saving fuel in the Air Force with machine learning
- responding to AI security incidents
- advancing secure-by-design practice
- evaluating generative AI risk mitigation
- unlocking DevSecOps data in highly regulated environments
- launching the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter
- pioneering secure coding
Read the 2024 SEI Year in Review online or download a PDF from our Digital Library.
