REQUIREMENTS FOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE MODELS FOR LARGE-SCALE DEFENSE SYSTEMS
REQUIREMENTS FOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE MODELS FOR LARGE-SCALE DEFENSE SYSTEMS

Summary/Abstract: Large-scale defense system projects are strategic for maintaining and increasingthe national defense capability. Therefore, governments spend billions of dollars in theacquisition and development of large-scale defense systems. The scale of defense systems isalways increasing and the costs to build them are skyrocketing. Today, defense systems aresoftware intensive and they are either a system of systems or a part of it. Historically, theproject performances observed in the development of these systems have been signifi cantlypoor when compared to other types of projects. It is obvious that the currently used systemsdevelopment life cycle models are insuffi cient to address today’s challenges of building thesesystems. Using a systems development life cycle model that is specifi cally designed for largescaledefense system developments and is effective in dealing with today’s and near-futurechallenges will help to improve project performances. The fi rst step in the development alarge-scale defense systems development life cycle model is the identifi cation of requirementsfor such a model. This paper contributes to the body of literature in the fi eld by providing aset of requirements for system development life cycle models for large-scale defense systems.Furthermore, a research agenda is proposed.

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