The Growing Importance of Sustaining Software for the DoD » SEI Blog

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http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/the-growing-importance-of-sustaining-software-for-the-dod

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The costs of software sustainment are becoming too high to discount since they account for 60 to 90 percent of the total software lifecycle effort. Moreover, in an era where DoD new-start programs are being reduced in favor of prolonging legacy systems, significant software sustainment cost increases are themselves unsustainable. The growing expense and prolonging of legacy systems motivates the need for greater discipline and attention on defining and applying appropriate methods and technologies to improve sustainment capabilities and efficiencies.