DMA (Defense Mapping Agency) Software Improvement Program, Talking Paper for Federal DP EXPO (Session E-2), Dealing with Obsolescence: Conversion and Upgrading

摘要

The Defense Mapping Agency is currently in the initial stages of a five-year program to upgrade a subset of its UNIVAC 1100 Scientific and Technical Software, upgrade manager and software developer skills, and establish an environment to support the software upgrade. The software upgrade will include: translation of non-standard FORTRAN and COBOL to conform to ANSI standards; restructuring; documentation enhancement; and redesign of interactivity. Both in-house and contractual efforts will be used to accomplish this. The software development environment will be modernized with emphasis on standards: tools to support the upgrade and software management processes; and tools to improve productivity. Training emphasis includes: software engineering, quality assurance: and productivity assurance. Successful implementation of the SIP will provide the following benefits: a standard software base in which production software is identifiable and maintainable; standard software development practices; tools to improve productivity; and production software which will be less costly and less difficult to convert to different vendor hardware. (Author)