The Composition and Employment of Software Personnel in the U.S. Department of Defense
Bonnie L Triezenberg; Jason M Ward; Jonathan Cham; Devon Hill; Sean Robson; Jeff Fourman
RAND
2021
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Attempts by the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) to address persistent challenges with software development have been hampered by an inability to identify the many software professionals working within DoD's programs. In this report, the authors identify and characterize a subset of DoD's software workforce, the types of software developed within DoD, and the variety of methods DoD programs use when employing that workforce to develop software.