SBIR/STTR Research Award
TECHNOLOGY FOR REENGINEERING TACTICAL SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Award amount
$499,547Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Space Applications Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
A COMPREHENSIVE METHODOLOGY FOR REENGINEERING TACTICAL SOFTWARE IS PROPOSED THAT WILL PROVIDE THE PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATING NEW AND EXISTING SOFTWARE ANALYSIS TOOLS INTO A COMPLETE TOOL SET. SUCH A TOOL SET WOULD ASSIST THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING THE FUNCTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EXISTING SOFTWARE SO THAT THE ORIGINAL DESIGN CAN BE MANIPULATED AND REIMPLEMENTED IN STRUCTURED ADA. OUR CONCEPT USES EXISTING LEXICAL TRANSLATORS TO CREATE AN EQUIVALENT "DRAFT-ADA" SOURCE FROM THE ORIGINAL NON-ADA SOURCE CODE. THEN, SOFTWARE ANALYSIS TOOLS ARE APPLIED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OUR REENGINEERING METHODOLOGY TO ASSIST THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN REFINING THIS ROUGH ADA CODE INTO A USABLE PRODUCT. OUR CONCEPT ALLOWS THE USER TO EMPLOY DESIGN AND CODE ELEMENTS FROM THE EXISTING SOFTWARE, AS WELL AS INCORPORATE NEW REQUIREMENTS.
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