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    2005
  • STN vol.8 no.3: Software Archaeology
    - Reverse Engineering and Software Archaeology
    - Software Archaeology
    - Migration of Legacy Components to Service-Oriented Architecture
    - Sofftware Preservation at the Computer History Museum

  • STN vol.8 no.2: Secure Software Engineering
    - Developing Secure Software
    - The Challenge of Low Defect, Secure Software
    - Enhancing Customer Security
    - Software Development Security - Lessons Learned

  • STN vol.8 no.1: Software Reliabilty Engineering
    - Software Reliability Engineering - An Overview
    - Automated Testing with an Operational Profile
    - Applications of SRE in the Security Domain
    - Software Reliability Engineering for Mass Market Products
    - Application of SRE to Ultrareliable Systems - The Space Shuttle
    2006
  • STN vol.9 no.1: Measurement
    - The Measurement Challenge of High Maturity
    - Estimating System-of-Systems Development Effort
    - Measurements: Managing a Large Complex Modernization Effort
    - Building Systems Using Software Components

  • STN vol.9 no.2: Functional Size Measurement
    - The Principles of Sizing and Estimating Using (IFPUG) Function Points
    - Introduction to Function Points
    - Software Early Lifecycle - Functional Sizing

  • STN vol.9 no.3: Functional Sizing of Real-time & Embedded Systems
    -Sizing and Estimating for Real-time Software - the COSMIC-FFP Method
    -COSMIC-FFP - A Method for Sizing All the Software Not Just What the User Sees
    -Estimation Models for Software Maintenance Based on Functional Size
    -With or Without a Navigator? - It’s Your Call
    -Sizing and Developing Software Using a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Approach
    -Total Electronic Migration System (TEMS): Providing Real-Time Access to Scientific and Technical Information (STI)

  • STN vol.9 no.4: Net-Centric Software Architecture
    -Tech Views: Working Through the Maze!
    -The Role of Architecture in Moving DoD to a Net-Centric Enviroment
    -Spurring NCO by Fostering Interoperability
    -DoD Netcentricity...a Buzzword or a Business Model

    2003
  • STN vol.6 no.2: Software Quality
    - Lessons Learned in Software Quality Assurance
    - Software Rejuvenation: Avoiding Failures Even When There Are Faults
    - Assessing Acquired Software via Software Fault Injection
    - Characterizing Software Dependability from Multiple Stakeholders Perspective

  • STN vol.6 no.1: Topics in Software Engineering
    - Detecting Architectural Problems Before They Damage The System
    - Software Engineering Education at West Point
    - TARA: The DoD Technical Review Program
    2004
  • STN vol.7 no.1: Grid Computing
    - The Role of Standards on the Grid
    - Grid Computing Defined
    - Standards Based Grid Products
    - Grid Computing for Information Superiority
    - MCNC's North Carolina Statewide Grid Computing Initiative
    - Grid Computing - A Services Perspective
    - TeraGrid Software Strategy: E Pluribus Unum
    - Global Information Grid - Questions and Answers

  • STN vol.7 no.2: Software Costs
    - Industry Software Cost, Quality and Productivity Benchmarks
    - Software Testing as an Art a Craft and a Discipline
    - Independent Verification and Validation of Neural Networks
    - Software Rejunivation and Self-healing
    2002
  • STN vol.5 no.4: ROI from SPI
    - ROI, The Return Comes Later, The Investment is Now
    - Benchmarking ROI for SPI
    - The Definative Paper: Quantifying the Benefits of SPI
    - Making Investment Decisions for SPI
  • STN vol.5 no.3: Experience Based Management
    - Lessons-Learned Repository for COTS-Based SW Development
    - Did We Lose Our Religion?
    - A Stitch in Time
    - Habitats: Toward An Architecture for the Global Information Grid

  • STN vol.5 no.2: Software Engineering Education
    - Education, Information Technology, and the Software Crisis
    - SW Eng Graduate Opportunities at the Naval Postgraduate School
    - Innovative Software Engineering Education

  • STN vol.5 no.1: Software Agents - PART 2
    - Strategies for Discovering Coordination Needs in Multi-Agent Systems
    - Semantic Interoperability Among Agents
    - Army Intelligent Agents for Software Engineering
    1997
  • STN vol.1 no.2: Measurement
    - Earned Value & Automated Information Systems
    - Software Engineering Institute(SEI) Measurement Initiative

  • STN vol.1 no.1
    - DACS Named the DOD Software Information Clearinghouse
    - The Cohen Amendment Impacts Government IT Acquisitions
    1995
  • Autumn
    - Practical Software Measurement Program Update
    - The 7th Software Engineering Process Group Conference

  • Summer
    - National Software Council Incorporated
    - Corporate Information Management for Defense Science and Technology
  • Spring
    - A Synopsis of Seven Measurement Initiatives
    - Requirements Engineering Environment
    1996
  • Summer
    - State-Based Software Development Process
    - Information Warfare Part 2 - DOD Organizational Structure

  • Spring
    - The Software Program Managers Network
    - Information Warfare Part 1 - Introduction
    1993
  • Winter
    - IAC Managers and Users Meeting
    - STINFO Data Collection Effort

  • Autumn
    -Updated NASA/SEL Dataset
    - Conference Summary: AIAA; An Overview of Emerging Space Standards

  • Summer
    - Constraints vs. Creativity
    - NGCR Project Support Environments
    1994
  • Winter
    - U.S. Software Scientists & Executives Meet to Review Cooperstown Initiative's Progress
    - Rome Laboratory's Software Quality Technology Transfer Consortium

  • Autumn
    - National Software Council Initiative
    - Initial Meeting of the DACS Steering Committee

  • Summer
    - DACS "Home Page"
    - DACS Listserver

  • Spring
    - DACS Expands its Internet Services
    - Software Modernization through Automation