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Home > CrossTalk Jan 2004

CrossTalk - The Journal of Defense Software Engineering
  Jan 2004  
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Table of Contents Download Entire Issue (0401CrossTalk.pdf PDF 1248KB)
  Information From Senior Leadship  
  * Horizontal Fusion: Enabling Net-Centric Operations and Warfare  (0401Stenbit.pdf PDF 472KB)
by John P. Stenbit
The Department of Defense's Horizontal Fusion Initiative will equip warfighters with the ability to access real-time information at the right time to make the right decisions.
 
  * Net-Centric Warfare Is Changing the Battlefield Environment  (0401Raduege.pdf PDF 136KB)
by Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege Jr.
The Defense Information Systems Agency's net-centric technologies enable today's technologically superior warfighter to gain power from information, access, and speed.
 
  * Military-Use Software: Challenges and Opportunities  (0401Gilligan.pdf PDF 144KB)
by John M. Gilligan
The future vision for software within the Air Force must integrate software with other engineering disciplines, set a culture of professionalism, and employ an enterprise solution.
 
  * Charting the Course for the Department of the Navy's IM/IT Transformation  (0401Wennegren.pdf PDF 812KB)
by David M. Wennergren
The Department of the Navy's chief information officer talks about the department's information management/information technology transformation agenda.
 
  * The Fire Support Software Engineering Division Achieves CMMI Level 5  (0401Smith.pdf PDF 159KB)
by Milton Smith and Phil Sperling
These authors outline how this Army division became the first organization to attain CMMI Level 5 after 13 years of continuous pursuit and practice of a software and systems improvement program.
 
 
  Best Practices  
  * The AV-8B Team Learns Synergy of EVM and TSP Accelerates Software Process Improvement  (0401Pracchia.pdf PDF 139KB)
by Lisa Pracchia
This author explains the accelerating initiatives the AV-8B used to achieve Capability Maturity Model for Software Level 4 in 16 months versus the 50-month average reported by the Software Engineering Institute.
 
 
  Software Engineering Technology  
  * Object-Oriented Layers in ELIST  (0401Widing.pdf PDF 186KB)
by Mary Ann Widing, Kathy Lee Simunich, Dariusz Blachowicz, Mary Braun, and Dr. Charles Van Groningen
This article discusses the object-oriented design strategies used to develop the latest version of the Enhanced Logistics Intra-Theater Support Tool used to determine the feasibility of an intra-theater course of action.
 
 
  Open Forum  
  * Extreme Software Cost Estimating  (0401Jensen.pdf PDF 227KB)
by Dr. Randall W. Jensen
This article describes a management-centric approach to predicting software development cost and schedule in a modern, or extreme, development environment.
 
 
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