MICOM IV&V planning approach and experience involving software reliability

The Software Engineering Directorate (SED) of the U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM) provides software oversight support to the MICOM Program Offices developing weapon systems and command and control systems. The system and software reliability is critical for these programs. SED has developed and is implementing an engineering-based approach that validates and documents the analysis of the software engineering as well as the engineering risks related to reliability. The approach is entitled the Software Engineering Evaluation System (SEES). The purpose of this paper is to describe the approach and experience that the U.S. Army Missile Command, Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Software Engineering Directorate, has taken to improve the software reliability engineering of MICOM Programs for reduced costs