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portal to bring together DoD software developers, users, and software engineering researchers virtually by enabling their
collaboration on specifying and solving software producibility challenge problems. SPRUCE is based on the premise that well
articulated and technology users and technology providers. Key SPRUCE features are: self-organizing communities of interest
(CoI), dynamically evolving challenge problems with accompanying artifacts, and built-in experimentation facilities to
reproduce the problems and evaluate solution benchmarks.
DTIC
Computer Programming; Computer Systems Programs; Software Engineering
20100017665 Air Force Inst. of Tech., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH USA
Visually Managing IPsec
Dell’Accio, Peter J.; March 2010; 146 pp.; In English; Original contains color illustrations
Report No.(s): AD-A516965; AFIT/GCO/ENG/10-06; No Copyright; Avail.: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
ONLINE: http://hdl.handle.net/100.2/ADA516965
The USA Air Force relies heavily on computer networks to transmit vast amounts of information throughout its
organizations and with agencies throughout the Department of Defense. The data take many forms, utilize different protocols,
and originate from various platforms and applications. It is not practical to apply security measures specific to individual
applications, platforms, and protocols. Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a set of protocols designed to secure data traveling
over IP networks, including the Internet. By applying security at the network layer of communications, data packets can be
secured regardless of what application generated the data or which protocol is used to transport it. However, the complexity
of managing IPsec on a production network, particularly using the basic command-line tools available today, is the limiting
factor to widespread deployment. This thesis explores several visualizations of IPsec data, evaluates the viability of using
visualization to represent and manage IPsec, and proposes an interface for a visual IPsec management application to simplify
IPsec management and make this powerful security option more accessible to the information warfighter.
DTIC
Computer Networks; Protocol (Computers)
20100017712 Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA, USA
Achieving Operability via the Mission System Paradigm
Hammer, Fred J.; Kahr, Joseph R.; March 4, 2006; 10 pp.; In English; IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2006, Big Sky,
MT, USA; Original contains black and white illustrations; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources
ONLINE: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/41559; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2006.1656155
In the past, flight and ground systems have been developed largely-independently, with the flight system taking the lead,
and dominating the development process. Operability issues have been addressed poorly in planning, requirements, design,
I&T, and system-contracting activities. In many cases, as documented in lessons-learned, this has resulted in significant
avoidable increases in cost and risk. With complex missions and systems, operability is being recognized as an important
end-to-end design issue. Never-the-less, lessons-learned and operability concepts remain, in many cases, poorly understood
and sporadically applied. A key to effective application of operability concepts is adopting a ‘mission system’ paradigm. In
this paradigm, flight and ground systems are treated, from an engineering and management perspective, as inter-related
elements of a larger mission system. The mission system consists of flight hardware, flight software, telecom services, ground
data system, testbeds, flight teams, science teams, flight operations processes, procedures, and facilities. The system is
designed in functional layers, which span flight and ground. It is designed in response to project-level requirements, mission
design and an operations concept, and is developed incrementally, with early and frequent integration of flight and ground
components.
Author
Engineering Management; Flight Operations; Lessons Learned; Mission Planning; Data Acquisition; Computer Programs;
Applications Programs (Computers)
20100017724 Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA, USA
Sequence System Building Blocks: Using a Component Architecture for Sequencing Software
Streiffert, Barbara A.; O’Reilly, Taifun; June 19, 2005; 9 pp.; In English; SpaceOps 2006, 19 Jun. 2005, Rome, Italy; Original
contains color illustrations; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources
ONLINE: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/41517
Over the last few years software engineering has made significant strides in making more flexible architectures and
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