Suellen Eslinger
    Best Practices for the Acquisition of COTS-Based Systems
 

Richard J. Adams

 

 


  Suellen Eslinger is a Distinguished Engineer in the Software Engineering Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA. She has over 30 years experience in software engineering and acquisition. Prior to her 18 years at Aerospace, she worked at Computer Sciences Corporation and General Research Corporation, where she developed software and managed software development projects for DoD and NASA software-intensive systems. Ms. Eslinger has presented papers at STC 2001 through 2003, on COTS Software Lessons Learned and other software engineering and acquisition-related topics. She is also a co-author of a CrossTalk article on Lessons Learned from Using COTS Software on Space Systems.