SEI Strategic Plan: 1997

Special Report
CMU/SEI-96-SR-006

This document presents the strategic plan of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for the next five years (1997-2001). The SEI technical program is organized into three broad areas: technical engineering practices, enhanced software management capabilities, and transition readiness. Because technical engineering practices potentially cover a very wide set of issues, we intend to use information survivability as a unifying application problem for this aspect of our work. This document was written in early 1996 and delivered to our sponsor (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA]) as a contract deliverable in July 1996. As such, it was a draft plan; its execution depends primarily on approved resource allocations. The planning starts long before the Congress completes its budget authorization and appropriation. Historically, circumstances such as changing customer needs and shifting resource allocations have made it necessary to change our plans.