Lessons Learned and Best Practices regarding the Software Acquisition process.
Acquisition One Source Best Practices and Lessons Learned - The Acquisition One Source has a large repository of best practices and lessons learned. Acquisition One Source is developed and
maintained by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN/RDA).
Acquisition Process Improvement - The analysis of current software acquisition processes for deficiencies and implementing new/modified processes to correct those deficiencies, including specific process-oriented tools, methods, models, etc. (such as the SEI SA-CMM ® and CMMI-AM®) to aid in process improvement.
Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence - The Best Manufacturing Practices (BMP) web site is the source for best practices and innovative technologies. The BMP Program is a unique industry and government cooperative technology transfer effort that improves the global competitiveness of the U.S. industrial base. The primary objective toward this goal is simple: to identify and validate best practices, document them, and then encourage industry, government, and academia to share information about them. BMP Program and Technical expertise includes Acquisition Management.
Best Practices for Contract Administration - This guidebook contains best practices in contract administration that should be useful tools to program and contracting officials in administering federal contracts. The covered areas are:
Roles and Responsibilities of the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR); Reviewing and Processing Vouchers; and
Contract Closeout.
Published by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in October 1994.
Enhancing the Development Life Cycle to Product Secure Software, V2.0 Oct. 2008 - This report joins a growing body of software assurance information resources and tools provided through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) BuildSecurityIn Web portal (https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov) that are intended to assist software developers, architects, acquirers, and educators in the improvement and verification of the quality, reliability, and security of the software they produce or procure-and in establishing the justification to use that software with confidence.
It is intended to complement the report titled "Software Security Assurance: A State-of-the-Art Report," since it describes in greater technical depth and detail the security principles and practices that software developers, testers, and integrators can adopt to achieve the twin objectives of producing more secure software-intensive systems, and verifying the security of the software they produce.
Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) - A systematic approach to product development (acquisition) which increases customer satisfaction through a timely collaboration of necessary disciplines throughout the life cycle.
DACS Gold Practice Initiative
