DDP Development Facility Capabilities for Effective Acquisition of DDP Software and Hardware

摘要

This report documents the results to-date of the study titled Distributed Data Processing (DDP) Software/Hardware Support Plan in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Terminal Phase. This study was initiated mid-January 1980 and its purpose is to identify the capabilities required by BMD in order to have high confidence that full scale development (FSD) of a DDP subsystem can be initiated and completed within a short (3 to 4 year) time frame. The study is directed toward the definition of a DDP development facility for BMD that will help achieve the goal of a speedy development. The BMD DDP subsystem referred to in this report is assumed to be general in nature, i.e., its components may be hardware or software. Hardware components may be general purpose or specially developed for this application; they may already exist or are yet to be developed. Software components may consist of a combination of high order languages, assembly languages and microcoded modules.