September 20-23, 2011
NASA Ames Conference Center
SDP Cross Agency and National Needs Summit This summit is to inform a crosscutting SDP research and technology agenda. It will provide a forum for bringing together policy makers, stakeholders, visionaries, and R&D leaders for software design and productivity research. The summit will build mutual understanding of agency needs and national priorities in SDP. Multitudes of fundamental advances in computer science have us poised for potential breakthroughs in SDP. Therefore, the time is right to assess what can be accomplished through new R&D investments. The summit will focus on the key issues of the SDP mission: to advance software engineering concepts, methods, techniques and tools that result in more usable, dependable, cost-effective, and sustainable software-intensive systems. The workshop will provide recommendations for action on the following topics:

1. Research Challenges. Identification of major challenges and opportunities for improving software affordability and responsiveness in development and sustainment efforts for safety and mission critical systems. Formulation of research and technology goals to address these key issues.

2. Software Assurance. Guidance and encouragement to certification authorities for qualifying new, more productive tools and methods for software design, development, test, verification, and sustainment leading to affordable certification of software-intensive systems.

3. Cost-Effectiveness. Development of software cost and schedule models that incorporate predictions of the impact of new technologies and provide reasonable predictability of cost, schedule and success for software projects.

Software Production Data: Understanding software creation and evolution is a big data problem, Software Design and Productivity (SDP) white paper, August 1, 2011

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