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Presentation
Best Practices for the Acquisition of COTS-Based Systems: Lessons Learned from the Space System Domain |
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The incorporation of COTS software into software-intensive systems brings promises of significantly reduced cost and schedule, and improved reliability and maintainability. However, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) programs often find that the reality is very different! This presentation provides the results of an in-depth study of actual CBS development and sustainment experiences on SMC and NRO programs. This study demonstrated that only careful acquisition, development, and sustainment preparation and execution achieve the potential CBS benefits. CBS success depends upon preparing for a complex development and sustainment effort; preparing for inherent cost, schedule and performance risks beyond government or developer control; and preparing to make adjustments to current acquisition, development and sustainment processes. This presentation identifies lessons learned and software acquisition best practices for the acquisition of COTS- based software-intensive systems, based on the experiences (both positive and negative) of recent space programs. | |||||||||||||
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