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The SEI provides access to more than 5,000 documents from three decades of research on best practices in software engineering. These documents include technical reports, presentations, webinars, podcasts, blogs, and other searchable materials. You can search our database to find publications that span the SEI's history as well as current research.
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Digital Engineering Effectiveness
May 20, 2022 • White Paper
This paper explores why developers of cyber-physical systems have been slow to embrace digital engineering (DE), how DE methods should be tailored to achieve their stakeholders' goals, and how to measure the effectiveness of DE-enabled workflows.
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Predictable Use of Multicore in the Army and Beyond
May 04, 2022 • Webinar
Björn AnderssonDionisio de Niz
In this webcast, SEI staff members Bjorn Andersson, PhD, Dionisio de Niz, PhD, and William Vance of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center will discuss using real-time software on multicore processors.
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Guidance for Tailoring DoD Request for Proposals (RFPs) to Include Modeling
April 27, 2022 • Special Report
Julie B. CohenTom MerendinoRobert Wojcik
This report provides guidance for government program offices that are including digital engineering/modeling requirements into a request for proposal.
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Modeling to Support DoD Acquisition Lifecycle Events (Version 1.4)
April 26, 2022 • White Paper
Julie B. CohenTom MerendinoRob Wojcik
This document provides suggestions for producing requirement, system, and software models that will be used to support various DoD system acquisition lifecycle events.
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Experiences with Deploying Mothra in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
April 26, 2022 • Technical Report
Brad PowellDaniel RuefJohn Stogoski
The authors describe development of an at-scale prototype of an on-premises system to test the performance of Mothra in the cloud and provide recommendations for similar deployments.
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Developing Models to Support DoD Technical Reviews
April 26, 2022 • Webinar
Julie B. CohenRobert WojcikLinda Parker Gates
In this webcast, Julie Cohen, Rob Wojcik and Linda Parker Gates discuss guidelines that contractors can use to develop models to support System Engineering Technical Reviews.
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